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Insights into the Structures of Bilirubin and Biliverdin from Vibrational and Electronic Circular Dichroism: History and Perspectives. Molecules 2023; 28:molecules28062564. [PMID: 36985535 PMCID: PMC10054127 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28062564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2023] [Revised: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/08/2023] [Indexed: 03/14/2023] Open
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In this work we review research activities on a few of the most relevant structural aspects of bilirubin (BR) and biliverdin (BV). Special attention is paid to the exocyclic C=C bonds being in mostly Z rather than E configurations, and to the overall conformation being essentially different for BR and BV due to the presence or absence of the double C=C bond at C-10. In both cases, racemic mixtures of each compound of either M or P configuration are present in achiral solutions; however, imbalance between the two configurations may be easily achieved. In particular, results based on chiroptical spectroscopies, both electronic and vibrational circular dichroism (ECD and VCD) methods, are presented for chirally derivatized BR and BV molecules. Finally, we review deracemization experiments monitored with ECD data from our lab for BR in the presence of serum albumin and anesthetic compounds.
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Madea D, Mujawar T, Dvořák A, Pospíšilová K, Muchová L, Čubáková P, Kloz M, Švenda J, Vítek L, Klán P. Photochemistry of ( Z)-Isovinylneoxanthobilirubic Acid Methyl Ester, a Bilirubin Dipyrrinone Subunit: Femtosecond Transient Absorption and Stimulated Raman Emission Spectroscopy. J Org Chem 2022; 87:3089-3103. [PMID: 35130431 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c02870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Bilirubin (BR) is an essential metabolite formed by the catabolism of heme. Phototherapy with blue-green light can be applied to reduce high concentrations of BR in blood and is used especially in the neonatal period. In this work, we studied the photochemistry of (Z)-isovinylneoxanthobilirubic acid methyl ester, a dipyrrinone subunit of BR, by steady-state absorption, femtosecond transient absorption, and stimulated Raman spectroscopies. Both the (Z)- and (E)-configurational isomers of isovinylneoxanthobilirubic acid undergo wavelength-dependent and reversible photoisomerization. The isomerization from the excited singlet state is ultrafast (the lifetimes of (Z)- and (E)-isomers were found to be ∼0.9 and 0.1 ps, respectively), and its efficiencies increase with increased photon energy. In addition, we studied sensitized photooxidation of the dipyrrinone subunit by singlet oxygen that leads to the formation of propentdyopents. Biological activities of these compounds, namely, effects on the superoxide production, lipoperoxidation, and tricarboxylic acid cycle metabolism, were also studied. Finally, different photochemical and biological properties of this BR subunit and its structural analogue, (Z)-vinylneoxanthobilirubic acid methyl ester, studied before, are discussed.
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- Dominik Madea
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.,RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, General University Hospital in Prague and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Na Bojišti 3, 121 08 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, General University Hospital in Prague and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Na Bojišti 3, 121 08 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, General University Hospital in Prague and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Na Bojišti 3, 121 08 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, ELI Beamlines, Za Radnicí 835, 252 41 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic.,University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Branišovská, 1645/31a, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Branišovská, 1645/31a, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, and 4th Department of Internal Medicine, General University Hospital in Prague and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Na Bojišti 3, 121 08 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.,RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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Itoh S, Okada H, Koyano K, Nakamura S, Konishi Y, Iwase T, Kusaka T. Fetal and neonatal bilirubin metabolism. Front Pediatr 2022; 10:1002408. [PMID: 36824297 PMCID: PMC9941200 DOI: 10.3389/fped.2022.1002408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2022] [Accepted: 12/30/2022] [Indexed: 02/10/2023] Open
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Human fetal and neonatal bilirubin metabolism is centered on 4Z,15Z-bilirubin IXα (BR) due to the extremely low BR conjugating capacity of the liver. BR is a unique, highly lipophilic substance with physiological and toxic effects in the cell membranes of organs and body tissues. The fetus excretes BR through the placenta to the maternal circulation. After birth, BR is thought to act as an antioxidant against the increase in reactive oxygen species caused by the rapid increase in oxygen concentration during the adaptation process from in amniotic fluid to in air. However, bilirubin encephalopathy is a toxic effect of bilirubin. Due to the lipophilic nature of BR, it must be bound to a carrier to be distributed to various parts of the body by hydrophilic blood. This carrier of BR is human serum albumin (HSA). In humans, BR can be excreted efficiently after undergoing photochemical reactions upon high affinity binding to HSA. HSA also plays an important role in the prevention of bilirubin encephalopathy. This review focuses on the developmental and physiological role of bilirubin metabolism during the fetal and neonatal periods.
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- Susumu Itoh
- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan
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- Division of Analytical Technology, Department of Medical Technology, Kagawa Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Kagawa, Japan
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- Maternal Perinatal Center, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan
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Fluorescence excitation properties of bilirubin in solution and in serum. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2020; 215:112121. [PMID: 33422899 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2020.112121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Revised: 12/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The bichromophore nature of bilirubin explains the presence of at least two partially overlaying bands in both absorption and fluorescence emission spectra, and accounts for interchromophore exciton transfer events responsible for the emission sensitivity to the molecular environment and excitation wavelength. These concepts were likely responsible for the previously reported good yield of the unexpected remarkable bilirubin fluorescence emission under excitation at 366 nm, at which bilirubin absorption is very low. In this connection, aim of this work is to further investigate bilirubin spectral excitation properties and their diagnostic potential, until now poorly considered. Fluorescence excitation spectra of pure bilirubin in solution with solubilizing agents observed at 520 and 570 nm showed a wide region in the 430-510 nm range, similar to the absorption profile. In addition, an excitation band centered at about 400 nm was detected. Comparable excitation features were detected in rat serum. The 430-510 nm excitation region was well separated from a main band at shorter wavelength, ascribable to other endogenous fluorophores, with a shoulder at about 400 nm which was also easily discriminated by spectral fitting analysis. The bands ascribable to bilirubin showed changes of their relative contribution to the overall spectral region after liver ischemia/reperfusion, comparable to bilirubin biochemical data. Excitation spectra proved to discriminate the fluorescence of serum bilirubin at levels much lower than emission spectra, opening promising perspectives to improve the real time fluorescence analysis of crude serum in the absence of any exogenous labelling agent, and advance the diagnostic application of optical-biopsy in experimental hepatology and biomedicine.
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Lyskov I, Anda A, Wong YX, Tilley AJ, Hall CR, Thia J, Russo SP, Wong WWH, Cole JH, Smith TA. Bilirubin analogues as model compounds for exciton coupling. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:15567-15572. [PMID: 32613218 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp01421d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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A series of phycobilin analogues have been investigated in terms of coupled excitonic systems. These compounds consist of a monomer, a tetrapyrrole structurally similar to bilirubin (bR), and two conjugated bR analogues. Spectroscopic and computational methods have been used to investigate the degree of interchromophore coupling. We find the synthesised bR analogue shows stronger excitonic coupling than bR, owing to a different molecular geometry. The excitonic coupling in the conjugated molecules can be controlled by modifying the bridge side-group. New computed energy levels for bR using the DFT/MRCI method are also presented, which improve on published values and re-assign the character of excited singlet states.
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- Igor Lyskov
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, Australia
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Shen Y, Wang Y, Shi Y, Bi X, Xu J, Zhu Q, Ding F. Improving the clearance of protein-bound uremic toxins using cationic liposomes as an adsorbent in dialysate. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2019; 186:110725. [PMID: 31862563 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2019.110725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2019] [Revised: 11/26/2019] [Accepted: 12/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Anionic and protein-bound uremic toxins, represented by indoxyl sulfate (IS), may be associated with cardiovascular outcomes and the progression of chronic kidney disease in cases of injured kidney function and are not easily cleared by traditional dialysis therapy. We fabricated cationic liposomes that were modified with polyethyleneimine (PEI), octadecylamine (Oct), and hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB), and evaluated the effects on the clearance of the representative protein-bound uremic toxins (PBUTs). The binding rate was obtained by ultrafiltration and in vitro dialysis was performed in a Rapid Equilibrium Dialysis (RED) device to assay the clearing efficiency of the dialysate supported by three types of cationic liposomes. The cationic liposomes showed a higher binding rate with IS (1.24-1.38 fold higher) and p-cresol (1.07-1.09 fold higher) than in the unmodified plain liposomes. The dialysate supported by cationic liposomes also exhibited better clearing efficiency for IS (PEI-20: 57.65 ± 1.74 %; Oct-5: 62.80 ± 0.69 %; CTAB-10: 66.54 ± 0.91 %; p < 0.05) and p-cresol (PEI-20: 67.05 ± 3.09 %; Oct-5: 79.26 ± 0.43 %; CTAB-5: 68.45 ± 1.72 %; p < 0.05) than for phosphate buffer saline (IS: 29.70 ± 2.38 %; p-cresol: 33.59 ± 3.44 %) or dialysate supported by bovine serum albumin (IS: 50.00 ± 4.01 %; p-cresol: 53.06 ± 0.97 %). In conclusion, cationic liposomes are efficient in the clearance of anionic PBUTs, and these modified liposomes suggest a potential application in blood purification.
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- Yue Shen
- Department of Nephrology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Nephrology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Nephrology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Nephrology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Nephrology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Nephrology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Nephrology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China.
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Laskar AA, Khan MA, Rahmani AH, Fatima S, Younus H. Thymoquinone, an active constituent of Nigella sativa seeds, binds with bilirubin and protects mice from hyperbilirubinemia and cyclophosphamide-induced hepatotoxicity. Biochimie 2016; 127:205-13. [PMID: 27265787 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2016.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2016] [Accepted: 05/31/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Some reports indicate that thymoquinone (TQ), the main constituent of Nigella sativa seeds, is hepatoprotective. The aim of this study was to determine whether TQ is able to bind directly to bilirubin, and whether TQ or liposomal formulation of TQ (Lip-TQ) can reduce cyclophosphamide (CYP)-induced liver toxicity, serum bilirubin level in mice. The binding of TQ with bilirubin was studied by UV-VIS, fluorescence and Near-UV CD spectroscopy. Inhibition of binding of bilirubin to erythrocytes by TQ was also examined. To increase the in vivo efficacy, Lip-TQ was prepared and used against CYP-induced toxicity. The protective role of TQ or Lip-TQ against CYP-induced toxicity was assessed by determining the liver function parameters, the levels of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT), and histological studies. It was found that TQ binds to bilirubin and significantly inhibits the binding of bilirubin to erythrocytes. Lip-TQ (10 mg/kg) significantly reduced the levels of aspartate transaminase (AST) from 254 ± 48 to 66 ± 18 IU/L (P < 0.001), alanine transaminase (ALT) from 142 ± 28 to 47.8 ± 16 IU/L (P < 0.05) and serum bilirubin from 2.8 ± 0.50 to 1.24 ± 0.30 mg/dl (P < 0.05). Treatment with Lip-TQ reduced the CYP-induced inflammation and hemorrhage in liver tissues. Moreover, treatment with free or Lip-TQ protected the activity of SOD and CAT in CYP-injected mice. Therefore, TQ can reduce the level of bilirubin in systemic circulation in disease conditions that lead to hyperbilirubinemia and liver toxicity and hence may be used as a supplement in the treatment of liver ailments.
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- Amaj A Laskar
- Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India
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- College of Applied Medical Sciences, Qassim University, Buraydah, 51452, Saudi Arabia
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- College of Applied Medical Sciences, Qassim University, Buraydah, 51452, Saudi Arabia
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- Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India
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- Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India.
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Novotná P, Králík F, Urbanová M. Chiral recognition of bilirubin and biliverdin in liposomes and micelles. Biophys Chem 2015; 205:41-50. [PMID: 26071845 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2015.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2015] [Revised: 05/30/2015] [Accepted: 06/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The structural formula of biologically important chiral pigments bilirubin and biliverdin differs only by one double bond. We showed that this results in dissimilar interactions with two models of membranes: cationic liposomes composed of 3β-[N-(N',N'-dimethylaminoethane)-carbamoyl]cholesterol and zwitterionic micelles from 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonate (CHAPS). While the liposomes recognized the P-form of bilirubin, the micelles recognized its M-form. Both recognized the P-form of biliverdin. Our study also comprised ternary systems consisting of the pigments, model membranes and serum albumin (human and bovine). Bilirubin preferentially interacted with the albumins even in the presence of the liposomes. On the other hand, biliverdin preferred the liposomes. Remarkably, the presence of CHAPS completely changed the biliverdin binding to the protein. Because our study was oriented on different chiral interactions, a chiroptical method of electronic circular dichroism was chosen as the principal method to study our systems. As complementary methods, UV-vis absorption and fluorescence emission were used.
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- Pavlína Novotná
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics and Measurements, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic.
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Neubrand MW, Carey MC, Laue TM. Self-Assembly of Aqueous Bilirubin Ditaurate, a Natural Conjugated Bile Pigment, to Contraposing Enantiomeric Dimers and M(−) and P(+) Tetramers and Their Selective Hydrophilic Disaggregation by Monomers and Micelles of Bile Salts. Biochemistry 2015; 54:1542-57. [DOI: 10.1021/bi501251v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Michael W. Neubrand
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical
School, and Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s
Hospital and Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical
School, and Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s
Hospital and Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, United States
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Minic SL, Milcic M, Stanic-Vucinic D, Radibratovic M, Sotiroudis TG, Nikolic MR, Velickovic TĆ. Phycocyanobilin, a bioactive tetrapyrrolic compound of blue-green alga Spirulina, binds with high affinity and competes with bilirubin for binding on human serum albumin. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra05534b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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High affinity, stereo-selective binding of phycocyanobilinM-conformer to HSA, and its competition with bilirubin, warfarin and hemin for the binding to protein.
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- Simeon L. Minic
- Department of Biochemistry
- Center of Excellence for Molecular Food Sciences
- Faculty of Chemistry
- University of Belgrade
- 11000 Belgrade
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- Department of Biochemistry
- Center of Excellence for Molecular Food Sciences
- Faculty of Chemistry
- University of Belgrade
- 11000 Belgrade
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- Department of Biochemistry
- Center of Excellence for Molecular Food Sciences
- Faculty of Chemistry
- University of Belgrade
- 11000 Belgrade
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- Institute of Chemistry
- Technology and Metallurgy – Center for Chemistry
- University of Belgrade
- 11000 Belgrade
- Serbia
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- Institute of Biology
- Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology
- National Hellenic Research Foundation
- 11635 Athens
- Greece
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- Department of Biochemistry
- Center of Excellence for Molecular Food Sciences
- Faculty of Chemistry
- University of Belgrade
- 11000 Belgrade
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- Department of Biochemistry
- Center of Excellence for Molecular Food Sciences
- Faculty of Chemistry
- University of Belgrade
- 11000 Belgrade
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Pfeiffer WP, Lightner DA. (m.n)-Homorubins. Syntheses and Structures. MONATSHEFTE FUR CHEMIE 2014; 145:1777-1801. [PMID: 25544780 DOI: 10.1007/s00706-014-1288-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Five new homorubin analogs of bilirubin with their two dipyrrinone components conjoined to (CH2)2, (CH2)3, and (CH2)4 units were synthesized with propionic acid chains shortened to acetic and elongated to butyric, and examined by spectroscopy and molecular mechanics computations for an ability to form conformation-determining hydrogen bonds. With m designating the number of conjoining CH2 units and n indicating the number of CH2 units of the alkanoic acid chains of (m.n)-homorubins, (2.1), (3.2), (4.2), and (4.3) homorubins were prepared and compared with previously synthesized (2.2) and (2.3), which adopt intramolecularly hydrogen bonded conformations in CHCl3.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, 89557-0216 USA
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Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding and Linear Pentapyrrole Conformation. MONATSHEFTE FUR CHEMIE 2014; 145:1117-1135. [PMID: 25110361 DOI: 10.1007/s00706-014-1198-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Three new linear pentapyrrole rubinoid analogs: 2,3,7,8,17,18,22,23-octamethyl-12,13-bis-(2-carboxyethyl)-1,10,15,24,25,27,28,29-octahydro-27H-pentapyrrin-1,24-dione and 2,3,8,12,13,17,22,23-octamethyl-7,18-bis-(2-carboxyethyl)-1,10,15,24,25,26,27,28,29-octahydro-27H-pentapyrrin-1,24-dione, and its 7,18-dihexanoic acid analog were synthesized, respectively, from 2,3,7,8-tetramethyl-(10H)-dipyrrin-2-one, from 2,3,8-trimethyl-7-[2-(methoxycarbonyl)ethyl]-(10H)-dipyrrinone, and 2,3,8-trimethyl-7-[5-(methoxycarbonyl)pentyl]-(10H)-dipyrrinone. 13C NMR and 1H NMR measurements in (CD3)2SO confirmed the pentapyrrole structures, while 1H NMR data indicate intramolecular hydrogen bonding between the CO2H and dipyrrinone groups. Molecular mechanics modeling studies suggest stable U-shape conformations capable of encapsulating small planar aromatic molecules.
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Mölzer C, Huber H, Steyrer A, Ziesel GV, Wallner M, Goncharova I, Orlov S, Urbanová M, Ahlfors CE, Vítek L, Bulmer AC, Wagner KH. Interaction between TNFone and tetrapyrroles may account for their anti-genotoxic effects — a novel mechanism for DNA-protection. J PORPHYR PHTHALOCYA 2013. [DOI: 10.1142/s1088424613500995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Bilirubin, the principal and biologically most relevant bile pigment was, until recently, considered a waste product of haem catabolism. However, current data suggest that bile pigments possess biological potential, related to their antioxidant and anti-mutagenic effects. In this context, it is now assumed that bile pigments and their derivatives exert these effects via multiple mechanisms, including discrete anti-oxidative and physico-chemical interactive effects. The major scientific focus so far has concentrated on the compounds' antioxidant action, and mechanistic investigations of possible mutagen-tetrapyrrole interaction are lacking. Therefore we tested structurally related bile pigments/derivatives (bilirubin/-ditaurate/-dimethyl ester, biliverdin/-dimethyl ester, urobilin, stercobilin and protoporphyrin) for anti-genotoxicity in the Salmonella reverse mutation assay (strains TA98, TA102), together with the synthetic mutagen 2,4,7-trinitro-9H-fluoren-9-one (TNFone). To explore possible structural interactions, molecular systems of chlorin e6 porphyrin/bilirubin/biliverdin with TNFone were assayed using circular dichroism. These data consistently revealed, at suprastoichiometric concentrations, that tetrapyrroles interact with TNFone. Addition of TNFone to chlorin e6 porphyrin, bilirubin-albumin and biliverdin-albumin led to a marked change in pigment spectra, providing evidence for tight tetrapyrrole-mutagen interaction. This conclusion was also supported by substantial, TNFone-induced decrease of bilirubin oxidation in the bilirubin-albumin system. This outcome was reflected in a bacterial model, in which most tetrapyrroles and especially protoporphyrin, significantly attenuated TNFone-induced mutagenesis. These data indicate that aromatic, tetrapyrrolic molecules interact with TNFone, providing a novel mechanism to suggest the anti-mutagenic effects of bile pigments in vivo are related to their physico-chemical interaction with genotoxins.
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- Christine Mölzer
- University of Vienna, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Chemical Technology, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Chemical Technology, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Chemical Technology, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Stanford University, School of Medicine, 750 Welch Road, Suite 212, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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- Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics and 4th Department of Internal Medicine, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Kateřinská 32, 121 08 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Heart Foundation Research Centre, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University (Gold Coast Campus), Australia, 4222, Australia
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
- Heart Foundation Research Centre, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University (Gold Coast Campus), Australia, 4222, Australia
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The location of the high- and low-affinity bilirubin-binding sites on serum albumin: ligand-competition analysis investigated by circular dichroism. Biophys Chem 2013; 180-181:55-65. [PMID: 23838624 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2013.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2013] [Revised: 05/28/2013] [Accepted: 06/04/2013] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The locations of three bilirubin (BR)-binding sites with different affinities were identified as subdomains IB, IIA and IIIA for five mammalian serum albumins (SAs): human (HSA), bovine (BSA), rat, (RSA), rabbit (RbSA) and sheep (SSA). The stereoselectivity of a high-affinity BR-binding site was identified in the BR/SA=1/1 system by circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy, the sites with low affinity to BR were analyzed using difference CD. Site-specific ligand-competition experiments with ibuprofen (marker for subdomain IIIA) and hemin (marker for subdomain IB) did not reveal any changes for the BR/SA=1/1 system and showed a decrease of the bound BR at BR/SA=3/1. Both sites were identified as sites with low affinity to BR. The correlation between stereoselectivity and the arrangement of Arg-Lys residues indicated similarity between the BR-binding sites in subdomain IIIA for all of the SAs studied. Subdomain IB in HSA, BSA, SSA and RbSA has P-stereoselectivity while in RSA it has M-selectivity toward BR. A ligand-competition experiment with gossypol shows a decrease of the CD signal of bound BR for the BR/SA=1/1 system as well as for BR/SA=3/1. Subdomain IIA was assigned as a high-affinity BR-binding site. The P-stereoselectivity of this site in HSA (and RSA, RbSA) was caused by the right-hand localization of charged residues R257/R218-R222, whereas the left-hand orientation of R257/R218-R199 led to the M-stereoselectivity of the primary binding site in BSA (and SSA).
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Goncharova I, Orlov S, Urbanová M. Chiroptical properties of bilirubin-serum albumin binding sites. Chirality 2013; 25:257-63. [PMID: 23460297 DOI: 10.1002/chir.22143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2012] [Accepted: 11/14/2012] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Although the interactions between bilirubin and serum albumin are among the most studied serum albumin-ligand interactions, the binding-site location and the participation of bilirubin-serum albumin complexes in pathological and physiological processes are under debate. In this article, we have benefited from the chiral structure of bilirubin and used CD spectroscopy to characterize the structure of bilirubin bound to human and bovine serum albumins. We determined that in a phosphate buffer at pH 7.8 there are three binding sites in both human and bovine serum albumins. While the primary binding sites in human and bovine serum albumins bind bilirubin with P- and M-helical conformations, respectively, the secondary binding sites in both albumins bind bilirubin in the P-helical conformation. We have shown that the bonding of bilirubin to the serum albumin matrix is a more favorable process than the self-association of bilirubin under the studied conditions, with a maximum of three bound bilirubins per serum albumin molecule. Although bilirubin bound to the primary binding site has attracted the most attention, the presented results have documented the impact of the secondary binding sites which are relevant in the displacement reactions between BR and drugs and in the phenomena where bilirubin plays antioxidant, antimutagenic, and anti-inflammatory roles.
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- Iryna Goncharova
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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Trynda-Lemiesz L, Wiglusz K. Interactions of human serum albumin with meloxicam. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2010; 52:300-4. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2009.12.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2009] [Revised: 12/17/2009] [Accepted: 12/20/2009] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Iwase T, Kusaka T, Itoh S. (EZ)-Cyclobilirubin formation from bilirubin in complex with serum albumin derived from various species. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2010; 98:138-43. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2009.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2009] [Revised: 06/23/2009] [Accepted: 11/26/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Boiadjiev SE, Lightner DA. 13C-labeled bilirubin: synthesis of 31(32),171(172)-di-[13C]-mesobilirubin-XIIIα. MONATSHEFTE FUR CHEMIE 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/s00706-008-0050-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Zunszain PA, Ghuman J, McDonagh AF, Curry S. Crystallographic analysis of human serum albumin complexed with 4Z,15E-bilirubin-IXalpha. J Mol Biol 2008; 381:394-406. [PMID: 18602119 PMCID: PMC2568863 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 201] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2008] [Revised: 05/28/2008] [Accepted: 06/03/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Bilirubin, an insoluble yellow-orange pigment derived from heme catabolism, accumulates to toxic levels in individuals with impaired or immature liver function. The resulting jaundice may be managed with phototherapy to isomerize the biosynthetic 4Z,15Z-bilirubin-IXalpha to more soluble and excretable isomers, such as 4Z,15E-bilirubin. Bilirubin and its configurational isomers are transported to the liver by human serum albumin (HSA) but their precise binding location(s) on the protein have yet to be determined. To investigate the molecular details of their interaction, we co-crystallised bilirubin with HSA. Strikingly, the crystal structure--determined to 2.42 A resolution--revealed the 4Z,15E-bilirubin-IXalpha isomer bound to an L-shaped pocket in sub-domain IB. We also determined the co-crystal structure of HSA complexed with fusidic acid, an antibiotic that competitively displaces bilirubin from the protein, and showed that it binds to the same pocket. These results provide the first crystal structure of a natural bilirubin pigment bound to serum albumin, challenge some of the present conceptions about HSA-bilirubin interactions, and provide a sound structural framework for finally resolving the long-standing question of where 4Z,15Z-bilirubin-IXalpha binds to the protein.
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- Patricia A Zunszain
- Biophysics Section, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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Bile pigment complexes with cyclodextrins: electronic and vibrational circular dichroism study. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetasy.2007.08.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Basiglio CL, Arriaga SM, Pelusa HF, Almará AM, Roma MG, Mottino AD. Protective role of unconjugated bilirubin on complement-mediated hepatocytolysis. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2007; 1770:1003-10. [PMID: 17442495 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2007.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2006] [Revised: 02/21/2007] [Accepted: 03/08/2007] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Hyperbilirubinemia and complement-mediated immune attack on hepatocyte membrane are common features of certain hepatic diseases. To assess whether unconjugated bilirubin (UB) counteracts complement-mediated hepatocytolysis, we first generated a rabbit polyclonal antibody (Ab) against rat hepatocyte plasma membrane (RHPM). An assay performed with isolated rat hepatocytes in the presence of the polyclonal Ab and rat serum as complement donor demonstrated that UB inhibits cell lysis, as lactate dehydrogenase release into the medium was inhibited by the pigment in a dose-dependent manner. Immunofluorescence microscopy studies showed that UB significantly attenuates the binding of C3 to the hepatocyte-Ab complex. Further enzyme immunoassay studies showed that UB interferes the binding of C1q to purified anti-RHPM IgG, also in a dose-dependent manner. A dot-blot assay showed that [14C]-UB binds to C1q and human serum albumin (HSA) to a similar extent. A differential spectrum analysis of UB in the presence of C1q further confirmed that the pigment interacts with this protein. In conclusion, we demonstrated an inhibitory action of UB on complement-mediated Ab-induced hepatocytolysis, this action being evidenced at pathophysiological pigment concentrations (171 microM and higher). A direct binding of the pigment to C1q is likely involved.
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- Cecilia L Basiglio
- Instituto de Fisiología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas; CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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Rashid H, Khan MM, Tayyab S. Interaction of bilirubin with sealed and human serum albumin-entrapped sealed membranes. Mol Cell Biochem 2005; 277:101-7. [PMID: 16132720 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-005-5425-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2005] [Accepted: 04/13/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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In order to study the mechanism of entry and localization of bilirubin (BR) into cell membrane, binding of BR to sealed and human serum albumin (HSA)-entrapped sealed membranes was studied by CD spectroscopy. An induced bisignate CD cotton effects (CDCEs) of BR-bound sealed membranes were observed with maxima at 515 nm and minima at 470 nm with a shoulder at 430 nm. BR-bound HSA-entrapped sealed membranes produced CD spectra with additional positive peaks at 450 and 475 nm and negative troughs at 390 and 415 nm. The induced CDCEs of BR-bound sealed membranes and BR-bound HSA-entrapped sealed membranes were perturbed by the addition of drugs (ceftriaxone and sodium salicylate) with the effect of ceftriaxone being more pronounced. Drugs' being the displacer of BR from albumin, their incorporation in the incubation mixture was paralleled by reduction in CDCEs. Taken together, these results suggest that BR can traverse the membrane bilayer towards the inner surface instead of remaining intercalated in the exterior half of the bilayer.
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- Huma Rashid
- Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., India
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Kano K, Imaeda K, Ota K, Doi R. Reexamination of Cyclodextrin-Induced Conformational Enantiomerism of Bilirubin in Aqueous Solution. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 2003. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.76.1035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Zsila F, Bikádi Z, Simonyi M. Unique, pH-dependent biphasic band shape of the visible circular dichroism of curcumin-serum albumin complex. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2003; 301:776-82. [PMID: 12565848 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(03)00030-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Interaction between the plant derived polyphenolic type curcumin molecule having anticarcinogenic, antiinflammatory, and antioxidant activities, and human serum albumin was studied at different pH values by circular dichroism (CD) and electronic absorption spectroscopy. The weak, induced CD spectrum of curcumin-HSA complex measured at pH 7.4 in the visible spectral region shows striking changes upon alkalization; CD spectra collected between pH 7.7 and 9.3 exhibit characteristic, oppositely signed CD band pair according to the visible absorption band of HSA-bound curcumin. At 0.3 curcumin/HSA molar ratio, typical molar CD values are Delta epsilon (496.6nm)+40M(-1)cm(-1) and Delta epsilon (426.8nm)-40M(-1)cm(-1), respectively (pH 9.0, t=37 degrees C). The induced optical activity is attributed to a bent, right-handed chiral conformation of the HSA-bound curcumin molecule within which intramolecular exciton coupling occurs between the electric dipole transition moments of the dissymmetrically juxtaposed feruloyl chromophores. Deprotonation of phenolic OH group(s) of curcumin seems to be the reason leading to the conformational alteration of HSA-bound curcumin.
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- Ferenc Zsila
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Institute of Chemistry, Chemical Research Center, Budapest, Hungary.
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Tayyab S, Khan NJ, Khan MA, Kumar Y. Behavior of various mammalian albumins towards bilirubin binding and photochemical properties of different bilirubin-albumin complexes. Int J Biol Macromol 2003; 31:187-93. [PMID: 12568927 DOI: 10.1016/s0141-8130(02)00081-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Bilirubin (BR) binding properties of serum albumins from different mammalian species viz. human (HSA), equine (ESA), dog (DSA) and guinea pig (GPSA) were studied by absorption, fluorescence and CD spectroscopy. Whereas, a complex of BR with ESA produced maximum change, GPSA-BR complex showed weaker interaction as reflected from absorption and fluorescence spectroscopic data. Conformational analysis of these albumins by near- and far-UV CD spectra suggested similar structural characteristics (both secondary and tertiary structures) for ESA and HSA, whereas, DSA and GPSA had lower amounts of secondary and tertiary structures being minimum for GPSA. Photoirradiation results of BR-albumin complexes showed GPSA-bound BR more labile compared with other complexes, whereas, BR-ESA complex was found to be more stable against photoinduced chemical changes. Taken together, all these results suggest that chiroptical properties/stability of albumin bound BR varies with albumin species.
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- Saad Tayyab
- Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 002, India. alemaya.univ.telecom.net.et
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Khan MA, Kumar Y, Tayyab S. Bilirubin binding properties of pigeon serum albumin and its comparison with human serum albumin. Int J Biol Macromol 2002; 30:171-8. [PMID: 12063119 DOI: 10.1016/s0141-8130(02)00017-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Binding of bilirubin (BR) to pigeon serum albumin (PgSA) was studied by absorption, fluorescence and CD spectroscopy and results were compared with those obtained with human serum albumin (HSA). PgSA was found to be structurally similar to HSA as judged by near- and far-UV CD spectra. However, PgSA lacks tryptophan. Binding of BR to PgSA showed relatively weaker interaction compared to HSA in terms of binding affinity, induced red shift in the absorption spectrum of BR and CD spectral characteristics of BR-albumin complexes. Photoirradiation results of BR-albumin complexes also showed PgSA-bound BR more labile compared to HSA-bound BR.
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- Mateen A Khan
- Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 002, India
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Khan MM, Tayyab S. Understanding the role of internal lysine residues of serum albumins in conformational stability and bilirubin binding. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1545:263-77. [PMID: 11342052 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(00)00288-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The role of internal lysine residues of different serum albumins, viz. from human, rabbit, goat, sheep and buffalo (HSA, RbSA, GSA, SSA and BuSA), in conformational stability and bilirubin binding was investigated after blocking them using acetylation, succinylation and guanidination reactions. No significant change in the secondary structure was noticed whereas the tertiary structure of these proteins was slightly altered upon acetylation or succinylation as revealed by circular dichroism (CD), fluorescence and gel filtration results. Guanidination did not affect the native protein conformation to a measurable extent. Scatchard analysis, CD and absorption spectroscopic results showed marked reductions (5-21-fold decrease in K(a) and approximately 50% decrease in the CD Cotton effect intensity) in the affinity of albumins for bilirubin upon acetylation or succinylation whereas guanidination produced a small change. Interestingly, monosignate CD spectra of bilirubin complexed with GSA, SSA and BuSA were transformed to bisignate CD spectra upon acetylation or succinylation of internal lysine residues whereas spectra remained bisignate in the case of bilirubin bound to acetylated or succinylated derivatives of HSA and RbSA. When probed by CD spectroscopy, bilirubin bound to acetylated or succinylated derivatives of GSA and SSA rapidly switched over to native albumins and not vice versa. These results suggested that salt linkage(s) contributed by internal lysine residue(s) play an important role in the high-affinity binding of bilirubin to albumin and provide stability to the native three-dimensional conformation of the bound pigment. Chloroform severely decreased the intensity of both positive and negative CD Cotton effects of bilirubin complexed with acetylated or succinylated derivatives of all albumins which otherwise increased significantly in the case of bilirubin complexed with native and guanidinated albumin derivatives, except the bilirubin-RbSA complex which showed a small decrease in intensity. These results suggest that the presence of salt linkage(s) in bilirubin-albumin complexation is(are) crucial to bring about effective and efficient stereochemical changes in the bound pigment by co-binding of chloroform which seems to have at least one conserved binding site on these albumins that is shared with bilirubin.
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- M M Khan
- Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, 202002, Aligarh, India
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Yashima E. Polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases for high-performance liquid chromatographic enantioseparation. J Chromatogr A 2001; 906:105-25. [PMID: 11215883 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(00)00501-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 409] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Recent developments of polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases (CSPs) for the direct separation of enantiomers in high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) are mainly reviewed together with the results on mechanistic studies by means of chromatography, NMR and mass spectroscopies, and computational methods. Miscellaneous applications of polysaccharide derivatives to the newly developed, chiral dynamic high-performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC) for obtaining a nonracemic compound are also described.
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- E Yashima
- Department of Molecular Design and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan.
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Khan MM, Tayyab S. On the modulation of photoinduced fluorescence enhancement and conformational stability of albumin-bound bilirubin: effect of epsilon-NH(2) groups blocking and chloroform binding. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2000; 1523:147-53. [PMID: 11042378 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4165(00)00114-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Photoinduced fluorescence enhancement of bilirubin bound to primary binding site on human serum albumin (HSA) was completely ceased when epsilon-NH(2) groups of its internal lysine residues were covalently blocked by acetylation or succinylation though the pigment bound to these derivatives in a folded conformation akin to that bound to HSA. These photoinduced fluorescence modulations cannot be ascribed to the binding of bilirubin to secondary low affinity sites as the CD spectrum of bilirubin bound to these derivatives showed complete inversion upon addition of chloroform which binds to subdomain IIA in HSA where high affinity bilirubin binding site is located. Presence of chloroform reconciled the photoinduced alterations in the CD spectrum observed in its absence, suggesting that chloroform stabilized the bound ligand against light but the fluorescence properties of bilirubin complexed with acetylated or succinylated derivatives remained unchanged. Guanidination of internal epsilon-NH(2) groups in HSA by O-methylisourea did not alter the spectral properties of the bound ligand. These results suggest that salt linkage(s) existing between epsilon-NH(2) groups of lysine residues in HSA and carboxyl groups of bilirubin, act(s) as a potential barrier during conformational rotation of the bound ligand assisted by photoactivation and their abolishment can alter its dynamics and stereoselectivity, a hitherto unnoticed implication of salt linkage(s) in BR-HSA complex.
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- M M Khan
- Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, 202002, Aligarh, India
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Huggins MT, Lightner DA. Semirubin. A novel dipyrrinone strapped by intramolecular hydrogen bonds. J Org Chem 2000; 65:6001-8. [PMID: 10987933 DOI: 10.1021/jo000393k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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(4Z)-9-(5-Carboxypentyl)-2,3,7,8-tetramethyl-(10H)-dipyrrin- 1-one (1, semirubin), a new dipyrrinone model for one-half of bilirubin, the yellow-orange neurotoxic pigment of jaundice, was synthesized following Friedel-Crafts acylation of 2,3,7, 8-tetramethyl-(10H)-dipyrrin-1-one (5) with the half-ester acid chloride of adipic acid. Unlike other dipyrrinone models for bilirubin, such as the xanthobilirubic acids, which engage only in intermolecular hydrogen bonding, 1 is unique in having been designed and found to engage in intramolecular hydrogen bonding, between the carboxylic acid and the dipyrrinone lactam and pyrrole. This important conformation-determining structural characteristic, shared by 1 and bilirubin, renders them less polar than their methyl esters and leaves them monomeric in nonpolar solvents, where their esters are dimeric. The corresponding 10-oxo analogue (3) of 1 serves as a model for 10-oxo-bilirubin, a presumed bilirubin metabolite in alternate pathways for bilirubin excretion. Like 1, 3 is found to engage in intramolecular hydrogen bonding. Unlike the methyl ester of 1, the ethyl ester of 3 is not intermolecularly hydrogen bonded in nonpolar solvents.
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- M T Huggins
- Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0020, USA
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Petersen CE, Ha CE, Harohalli K, Feix JB, Bhagavan NV. A dynamic model for bilirubin binding to human serum albumin. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:20985-95. [PMID: 10764755 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m001038200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Site-directed mutagenesis of human serum albumin was used to study the role of various amino acid residues in bilirubin binding. A comparison of thermodynamic, proteolytic, and x-ray crystallographic data from previous studies allowed a small number of amino acid residues in subdomain 2A to be selected as targets for substitution. The following recombinant human serum albumin species were synthesized in the yeast species Pichia pastoris: K195M, K199M, F211V, W214L, R218M, R222M, H242V, R257M, and wild type human serum albumin. The affinity of bilirubin was measured by two independent methods and found to be similar for all human serum albumin species. Examination of the absorption and circular dichroism spectra of bilirubin bound to its high affinity site revealed dramatic differences between the conformations of bilirubin bound to the above human serum albumin species. The absorption and circular dichroism spectra of bilirubin bound to the above human serum albumin species in aqueous solutions saturated with chloroform were also examined. The effect of certain amino acid substitutions on the conformation of bound bilirubin was altered by the addition of chloroform. In total, the present study suggests a dynamic, unusually flexible high affinity binding site for bilirubin on human serum albumin.
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- C E Petersen
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
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Itoh S, Kusaka T, Imai T, Isobe K, Onishi S. Effects of bilirubin and its photoisomers on direct bilirubin measurement using bilirubin oxidase. Ann Clin Biochem 2000; 37 ( Pt 4):452-6. [PMID: 10902860 DOI: 10.1177/000456320003700404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We examined the reactivity of human serum albumin-bound bilirubin and its photoisomers as substrates for a direct bilirubin assay using bilirubin oxidase. The reduction of (EZ)-cyclobilirubin reached 100% 5 min after addition of the enzyme at any pH tested (3.5-7.4) in 0.1 mol/L phosphate buffer, whereas the reduction of (ZE)-bilirubin or (ZZ)-bilirubin reached 100% only below pH 4.5 or 5.5, respectively. (ZZ)-Bilirubin and its photoisomers did not react in citrate-lactate buffer at pH 3.7. The circular dichroism spectrum of (ZZ)-bilirubin in this buffer did not show a positive Cotton effect. These results indicate that a three-dimensional structure surrounding the reaction site of bilirubin is important for the reactivity with bilirubin oxidase.
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- S Itoh
- Department of Pediatrics, Kagawa Medical University, Kitagun, Japan.
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Khan MM, Muzammil S, Tayyab S. Role of salt bridge(s) in the binding and photoconversion of bilirubin bound to high affinity site on human serum albumin. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2000; 1479:103-13. [PMID: 11004533 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(00)00050-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The role of salt bridge(s) (between epsilon-NH(2) groups of lysine residues of human serum albumin (HSA) and carboxyl groups of bilirubin) in the binding and photoconversion of bilirubin bound to high affinity site on HSA was investigated by covalent modification of approximately 20% internal (buried) lysine residues of HSA with acetic anhydride, succinic anhydride and O-methylisourea and white light irradiation of their complexes with bilirubin. The different HSA derivatives, namely, acetylated HSA (aHSA), succinylated HSA (sHSA) and guanidinated HSA (gHSA), thus obtained, were found to be homogeneous with respect to charge and size and characterized in detail in terms of mean residue ellipticity, Stokes radius, tryptophan fluorescence, bilirubin binding and the photochemistry of their complexes with bilirubin. All the three derivatives retained helical contents and molecular size (Stokes radius) similar to HSA except for sHSA which showed a slight increase in the Stokes radius from 3.56 to 3.64 nm. Further, fluorescence properties of aHSA and sHSA were also found to be different from HSA and gHSA. Based on difference spectral change, fluorescence quenching and fluorescence enhancement results of bilirubin bound to HSA and its derivatives, nearly 46 and 48% reduction in bilirubin binding was observed in the case of aHSA and sHSA, respectively. Both aHSA and sHSA showed a decrease of 8- and 10-fold, respectively, in association constant compared to native HSA. Although the bisignate circular dichroism (CD) spectra of an equimolar (1:1) bilirubin-HSA complex was retained by all three HSA derivatives, the intensity of both positive and negative CD Cotton effects decreased significantly in both aHSA and sHSA. gHSA which retained net charge identical to native HSA, showed little decrease in bilirubin binding and the intensity of bisignate CD Cotton effects. The photochemical reaction of bilirubin bound to aHSA and sHSA produced opposite results to those observed with HSA and gHSA. A brief (2 min) irradiation of an equimolar complex of bilirubin with both aHSA and sHSA accompanied a rapid shift (14-15 nm) in the absorption spectrum of the bound pigment towards the blue region and almost complete elimination of negative CD Cotton effects while only moderately affecting the magnitude of positive CD Cotton effects. On the other hand, similar treatment of the complexes of bilirubin with HSA and gHSA did not show any change in the absorption spectrum, only a slight decrease in the intensity of both positive and negative CD Cotton effects was observed. The fluorescence intensity of bilirubin bound to HSA and gHSA was increased upon irradiation with white light and after 30 min it was nearly twice the value observed at 0 min irradiation. Interestingly, no change in the fluorescence intensity of bilirubin bound either to aHSA or sHSA was observed upon irradiation, even on increasing the duration of irradiation to 1 h. Taken together, the results on fluorescence quenching, fluorescence enhancement, CD spectral changes and visible absorption spectroscopy suggest that salt bridge(s) of the type (-COO(-).(+)H(3)N-) in which the epsilon-NH(2) group(s) contributed by lysine residues, are not only involved in the enantioselective binding of bilirubin but also in the stereospecific photoisomerization of bilirubin bound to a high affinity site on HSA.
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- M M Khan
- Protein and Enzyme Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, 202002 (U.P.), Aligarh, India
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Khan MM, Muzammil S, Tayyab S. Chloroform-induced conformational changes in the bound pigmentin bilirubin-albumin complexes. Biochimie 2000; 82:203-9. [PMID: 10863003 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-9084(00)00205-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Chloroform-induced conformational changes of bilirubin (BR) bound to different serum albumins were studied by circular dichroism (CD) and fluorescence spectroscopy. Addition of a small amount of chloroform ( approximately 20 mM) to a solution containing 20 microM albumin and 15 microM BR changed the sign order and magnitude of the characteristic CD spectra of all BR-albumin complexes except BR-PSA complex which showed abnormal behavior. Monosignate negative CD Cotton effects (CDCEs) of BR complexed with SSA, GSA and BuSA were transformed into bisignate CDCEs in presence of chloroform akin to those exhibited by chloroform free solution of BR-HSA complex, indicating that the pigment acquired right handed plus (P) chirality when chloroform was added to these complexes. Bisignate CD spectra of BR complexed with HSA and BSA showed complete inversion upon addition of chloroform corroborating earlier findings. On the other hand, changes observed with BR-RSA complex were slightly different showing an additional CD band of weak intensity centered around 390 nm though inversion of CDCEs was similar to that of BR-HSA complex. Monosignate CD spectra of BR-PSA complex also showed three CD bands occurring at 409, 470 and 514 nm after chloroform addition. These results indicated significant but different effects of chloroform on the conformation of bound BR in BR-albumin complexes which can be ascribed to the changes in the exciton chirality of bilirubin probably due to altered hydrophobic microenvironment induced by the binding of chloroform at or near the ligand binding site. Chloroform severely quenched the intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence of the protein and shifted the emission maxima towards blue region in all the albumins except PSA. However, quantitative differences in both quenching and blue shift were noted in different serum albumins. This suggests that chloroform probably binds in the close vicinity of tryptophan residue(s) located in subdomain(s) IIA or IB and II both. The fluorescence of BR-albumin complexes was also found to be sensitive to the presence of a small amount of chloroform. But the changes observed in the fluorescence of the bound pigment in presence of chloroform were less marked as compared to the changes in the intrinsic fluorescence of protein per se. Taken together, these results suggest that there is at least one conserved site for chloroform binding in all these albumins which is at or near the BR binding site.
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- M M Khan
- Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, India
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Morgan WT, Smith A. Binding and transport of iron-porphyrins by hemopexin. ADVANCES IN INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s0898-8838(00)51004-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Trivedi VD, Vorum H, Honoré B, Qasim MA. Molecular basis of indomethacin-human serum albumin interaction. J Pharm Pharmacol 1999; 51:591-600. [PMID: 10411219 DOI: 10.1211/0022357991772691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Studies on the strength and extent of binding of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug indomethacin to human serum albumin (HSA) have provided conflicting results. In the present work, the serum-binding of indomethacin was studied in 55 mM sodium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0) at 28 degrees C, by using a fluorescence quench titration technique. The interaction of indomethacin with human serum albumin has been studied as a function of temperature, ionic strength and pH. The results suggest that electrostatic interaction plays a major role in the binding. The possible role of lysine residues in this interaction was studied by modifying exposed and buried lysine residues of HSA with potassium cyanate and studying indomethacin binding with the modified HSA. The data suggest that the interaction takes place via a salt bridge formation between the carboxylate group of indomethacin and a buried lysine residue of HSA. A technique involving fluorescence enhancement of bilirubin upon its interaction with HSA was used to study its displacement by indomethacin. The displacement, although apparently competitive in nature, was not strong suggesting that the primary sites of interaction of bilirubin and indomethacin are different.
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- V D Trivedi
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, A.M.U., Aligarh, India
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Patra SK, Pal MK. Spectroscopic probes of the individual and combined effects of Triton X-100 and chloroform on serum albumins and serum-albumin.bilirubin complexes. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1997; 246:658-64. [PMID: 9219523 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.t01-1-00658.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The effects of the non-ionic surfactant Triton X-100 on the biphasic induced CD spectra of bilirubin complexes of human and bovine serum albumins (HSA and BSA) are divergent. While Triton X-100 inverts the induced CD spectrum of HSA.bilirubin, this surfactant enhances the ellipticity values of induced CD of BSA.bilirubin without inversion. The effect of Triton X-100 on the characteristic ultraviolet-CD spectra of the albumins are similar; both the albumins are denatured from their native globular structures. The anionic surfactant SDS, unlike non-ionic Triton X-100, dislodges the ligand from its protein complexes, indicating that both electrostatic and hydrophobic forces are involved in binding of bilirubin to the albumins. The aprotic solvent chloroform inverts the biphasic induced CD spectra of HSA.bilirubin and BSA.bilirubin, whereas CHCl3 has relatively little effect on the ultraviolet CD spectra of the albumins. The combined effect of Triton X-100 and CHCl3 shows that the effect of CHCl3 predominates over that of Triton X-100. The perturbing effects of Triton X-100 and CHCl3 on the CD or induced CD spectra of the proteins or their bilirubin complexes are reversible, and independent of the order in which components were added. The observations suggest that the denaturation of the albumins by Triton X-100 or solvation of CHCl3 within albumins markedly alter the internal topography or dynamics of the receptor sites, triggering alterations of the chirality of the bound pigment in sign and/or magnitude.
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- S K Patra
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Kalyani, India
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A symmetrical difluorinated bilirubin analog, 8,12-bis(2-carboxy-2-fluoroethyl)-3,17-diethyl-2,7,13,18-tetramethyl-10H,21H,23H,24H-biline-1,19-dione (9), was synthesized from methyl 3-[2,4-dimethyl-5-(methoxycarbonyl)-1H-pyrrol-3-yl] propionate (1) in nine steps. Fluorine was introduced by reaction of an intermediate methyl 3-[1-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)-2,4-dimethyl-5-(methoxycarbonyl)-1H-pyrrol-3-yl]-2-hydroxypropionate (5), with (diethylamino)sulfur trifluoride (DAST). The fluorinated rubin exhibited the expected IR, UV-vis, and NMR spectroscopic properties, similar to those of the unfluorinated parent, mesobilirubin XIIIalpha. However, the solubility properties unexpectedly differed, with the fluorinated rubin being less soluble in organic solvents than its parent. While this phenomenon may be attributed to the much increased acidity of the carboxylic acid hydrogens in 9, it probably also arises from less effective intramolecular hydrogen bonding due to a decreased basicity of the propionic acid carbonyl groups.
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Simonyi M. The concept of chiral conformers and its significance in molecular pharmacology. ADVANCES IN DRUG RESEARCH 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2490(97)80005-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Ostrow JD, Mukerjee P, Tiribelli C. Structure and binding of unconjugated bilirubin: relevance for physiological and pathophysiological function. J Lipid Res 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2275(20)39768-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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In-situ UV-visible spectroelectrochemical and circular dichroic electrochemical study of bilirubin and bilirubin + human serum albumin complex. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/0302-4598(94)80028-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Chapter 6 Analysis of protein structure by circular dichroism spectroscopy. TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-9244(08)70179-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Trull FR, Rodríguez M, Lightner DA. A Generalized Method for Synthesizing Unsymmetric from Symmetric Bile Pigments. SYNTHETIC COMMUN 1993. [DOI: 10.1080/00397919308013808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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D'Alagni M, D'Archivio AA, Giglio E. On the interaction of polypeptides with bile salts or bilirubin-IX alpha. Biopolymers 1993; 33:1553-65. [PMID: 8218923 DOI: 10.1002/bip.360331006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Aqueous solutions formed by polypeptides, simple models of proteins, and bile salts (sodium cholate and deoxycholate, NaC and NaDC, respectively) or bilirubin-IX alpha (BR) have been studied by CD measurements. They could mimic more complicated biliary systems, thus supplying a possible interpretation of the behavior of some amino acid residues in the biliary proteins. The aggregation of NaDC and NaC in water can be monitored by CD measurements. Bile salts, in submicellar and micellar form, stabilize poly(L-Lys) (PLL) in alpha-helical conformation. The alpha-helix content increases with increasing bile salt concentration and ionic strength. NaDC seems to be a slightly better stabilizing agent of the alpha-helix conformation than NaC. Models characterized by hydrogen bonds between bile salts and PLL are proposed, also resorting to previous data available on the systems formed by NaDC and poly(L-Leu-L-Leu-L-Lys) (PLLL) or poly(L-Leu-L-Leu-L-Asp) (PLLA). Binding of BR to PLL, poly(D-Lys), poly(L-Glu), PLLL, and PLLA in water has been investigated by CD spectra in order to clarify the nature of the association complexes and the mechanism of the BR enantioselective complexation. Potential energy calculations provide binding models capable of explaining the enantioselective ability of the PLL and PLLL alpha-helices toward the left- and right-handed enantiomer of BR, respectively. BR is bound to -NH2 groups of PLL and PLLL lying on a right- and left-handed spiral, respectively. These results, together with those formerly obtained for some bile salts-BR systems, indicate that the selectivity originates from a binding that involves large regions of the BR molecule and gives rise, very probably, to moderate conformational changes from the "ridge tile" structure observed in the crystals. In some cases van der Waals forces can play a crucial role in the chiral recognition of bilirubin. Moreover, possible interaction models of BR with human serum albumin are proposed on the basis of a recent x-ray crystal structure of the protein.
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- M D'Alagni
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
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Murakawa H, Abe J, Seki A, Takahashi H. Resonance CARS and molecular orbital studies of the binding of bilirubin to human serum albumin. J Mol Struct 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/0022-2860(93)80157-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Kanna Y, Arai T, Tokumaru K. Photoisomerization of Bilirubins and the Role of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 1993. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.66.1482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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McDonagh AF, Pu YM, Lightner DA. Effect of volatile anesthetics on the circular dichroism of bilirubin bound to human serum albumin. EXPERIENTIA 1992; 48:246-8. [PMID: 1547853 DOI: 10.1007/bf01930465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The characteristic circular dichroism of bilirubin bound to human serum albumin undergoes a remarkable sign inversion on addition of halothane, chloroform and other volatile anesthetics. This sign inversion, which is completely reversed by removal of the anesthetic, reflects a pronounced conformational change of the bound ligand; probably a complete inversion of chirality. The observation suggests that association of volatile anesthetics with proteins can markedly alter the internal topography of receptor sites and potentially influence the stereoselectivity of ligand binding.
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- A F McDonagh
- Liver Center, University of California San Francisco 94143-0538
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Mir MM, Fazili KM, Abul Qasim M. Chemical modification of buried lysine residues of bovine serum albumin and its influence on protein conformation and bilirubin binding. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1119:261-7. [PMID: 1547271 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(92)90212-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Using a double modification technique about 20% of the lysine residues of bovine serum albumin (BSA) which are not easily accessible in the native protein have been modified. The technique involved approximately 80% modification of lysine residues of BSA with citraconic anhydride followed by chemical modification of the remaining lysine residues with acetic anhydride, succinic anhydride, potassium cyanate, or O-methylisourea. Finally, these preparations were decitraconylated under mild acidic conditions to yield acetylated, succinylated, carbomylated or guanidinated BSA. All of these preparations were found to be homogeneous with respect to charge and size. The spectral, hydrodynamic and bilirubin binding properties of these preparations are described. In contrast to most of the highly modified proteins these preparations with the exception of succinylated BSA are very similar to native BSA in their spectral and hydrodynamic properties. However, the equilibrium association constant (Ka) with bilirubin measured by fluorescence quenching was decreased by about 100-fold in acetylated, carbamylated and succinylated BSA, but only 3-fold in guanidinated BSA. Since conformationally acetylated and carbamylated BSAs are identical to guanidinated BSA we conclude that the decrease in Ka in these preparations is solely due to loss of positive charge on 'critical' lysine residues. The results support a binding model for BSA in which bilirubin binding site is buried and the protein undergoes a series of relaxational changes in conformation upon interaction with bilirubin.
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- M M Mir
- Department of Biochemistry, J.N. Medical College, A.M.U., Aligarh, India
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