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Nishinari K, Fang Y. Molar mass effect in food and health. Food Hydrocoll 2021; 112:106110. [PMID: 32895590 PMCID: PMC7467918 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2020.106110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2019] [Revised: 06/12/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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It is demanded to supply foods with good quality for all the humans. With the advent of aging society, palatable and healthy foods are required to improve the quality of life and reduce the burden of finance for medical expenditure. Food hydrocolloids can contribute to this demand by versatile functions such as thickening, gelling, stabilising, and emulsifying, controlling texture and flavour release in food processing. Molar mass effects on viscosity and diffusion in liquid foods, and on mechanical and other physical properties of solid and semi-solid foods and films are overviewed. In these functions, the molar mass is one of the key factors, and therefore, the effects of molar mass on various health problems related to noncommunicable diseases or symptoms such as cancer, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia, constipation, high blood pressure, knee pain, osteoporosis, cystic fibrosis and dysphagia are described. Understanding these problems only from the viewpoint of molar mass is limited since other structural characteristics, conformation, branching, blockiness in copolymers such as pectin and alginate, degree of substitution as well as the position of the substituents are sometimes the determining factor rather than the molar mass. Nevertheless, comparison of different behaviours and functions in different polymers from the viewpoint of molar mass is expected to be useful to find a common characteristics, which may be helpful to understand the mechanism in other problems.
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- Katsuyoshi Nishinari
- Glyn O. Phillips Hydrocolloids Research Centre, School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, 430068, PR China
- Department of Food and Nutrition, Graduate School of Human Life Science, Osaka City University, Osaka, 558-6565, Japan
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, PR China
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Rokstad AMA, Lacík I, de Vos P, Strand BL. Advances in biocompatibility and physico-chemical characterization of microspheres for cell encapsulation. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2014; 67-68:111-30. [PMID: 23876549 DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2013.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2013] [Revised: 06/28/2013] [Accepted: 07/12/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Cell encapsulation has already shown its high potential and holds the promise for future cell therapies to enter the clinics as a large scale treatment option for various types of diseases. The advancement in cell biology towards this goal has to be complemented with functional biomaterials suitable for cell encapsulation. This cannot be achieved without understanding the close correlation between cell performance and properties of microspheres. The ongoing challenges in the field of cell encapsulation require a critical view on techniques and approaches currently utilized to characterize microspheres. This review deals with both principal subjects of microspheres characterization in the cell encapsulation field: physico-chemical characterization and biocompatibility. The up-to-day knowledge is summarized and discussed with the focus to identify missing knowledge and uncertainties, and to propose the mandatory next steps in characterization of microspheres for cell encapsulation. The primary conclusion of this review is that further success in development of microspheres for cell therapies cannot be accomplished without careful selection of characterization techniques, which are employed in conjunction with biological tests.
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- Anne Mari A Rokstad
- Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Prinsesse Kristinasgt. 1, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway; The Central Norway Health Authority (RHA), Trondheim, Norway.
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- Department for Biomaterials Research, Polymer Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, 845 41 Bratislava, Slovakia.
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- Immunoendocrinology, Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, EA11, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Prinsesse Kristinasgt. 1, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway; Department of Biotechnology, NTNU, Sem Saelandsvei 6/8, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway; The Central Norway Health Authority (RHA), Trondheim, Norway.
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Bronner DN, O'Riordan MXD, He Y. Caspase-2 mediates a Brucella abortus RB51-induced hybrid cell death having features of apoptosis and pyroptosis. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2013; 3:83. [PMID: 24350060 PMCID: PMC3842122 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2013.00083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2013] [Accepted: 10/30/2013] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Programmed cell death (PCD) can play a crucial role in tuning the immune response to microbial infection. Although PCD can occur in different forms, all are mediated by a family of proteases called caspases. Caspase-2 is the most conserved caspase, however, its function in cell death is ill-defined. Previously we demonstrated that live attenuated cattle vaccine strain Brucella abortus RB51 induces caspase-2-mediated and caspase-1-independent PCD of infected macrophages. We also discovered that rough attenuated B. suis strain VTRS1 induces a caspase-2-mediated and caspase-1-independent proinflammatory cell death in infected macrophages, which was tentatively coined "caspase-2-mediated pyroptosis". However, the mechanism of caspase-2-mediated cell death pathway remained unclear. In this study, we found that caspase-2 mediated proinflammatory cell death of RB51-infected macrophages and regulated many genes in different PCD pathways. We show that the activation of proapoptotic caspases-3 and -8 was dependent upon caspase-2. Caspase-2 regulated mitochondrial cytochrome c release and TNFα production, both of which are known to activate caspase-3 and caspase-8, respectively. In addition to TNFα, RB51-induced caspase-1 and IL-1β production was also driven by caspase-2-mediated mitochondrial dysfunction. Interestingly, pore formation, a phenomenon commonly associated with caspase-1-mediated pyroptosis, occurred; however, unlike its role in S. typhimurium-induced pyroptosis, pore formation did not contribute to RB51-induced proinflammatory cell death. Our data suggest that caspase-2 acts as an initiator caspase that mediates a novel RB51-induced hybrid cell death that simulates but differs from typical non-proinflammatory apoptosis and caspase-1-mediated proinflammatory pyroptosis. The initiator role of the caspase-2-mediated cell death was also conserved in cellular stress-induced cell death of macrophages treated with etoposide, naphthalene, or anti-Fas. Caspase-2 also regulated caspase-3 and -8 activation, as well as cell death in macrophages treated with each of the three reagents. Taken together, our data has demonstrated that caspase-2 can play an important role in mediating a proinflammatory response and a hybrid cell death that demonstrates features of both apoptosis and pyroptosis.
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- Denise N Bronner
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, MI, USA ; Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, MI, USA ; Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Draget KI, Skjåk-Bræk G. Alginates: Existing and Potential Biotechnological and Medical Applications. RENEWABLE RESOURCES FOR FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS AND BIOMATERIALS 2011. [DOI: 10.1039/9781849733519-00186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The present chapter on alginates in biotechnology and medicine comprises a description of traditional uses where alginates have been used as devices in e.g. wound dressings, as well as an in-depth introduction to possible future applications. The latter area is based on new scientific information on the immunostimulating properties of certain alginate sequences, as well as on the popularity gained by the alginate as immobilization matrix for cells. The latter opens up the use of alginate encapsulated cells for specific cell transplantation provided that the properties of the capsules are properly understood and controlled.
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- Kurt I. Draget
- Norwegian Biopolymer Laboratory (NOBIPOL) Department of Biotechnology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), N-7491 Trondheim Norway
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- Norwegian Biopolymer Laboratory (NOBIPOL) Department of Biotechnology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), N-7491 Trondheim Norway
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Unitt J, Hornigold D. Plant lectins are novel Toll-like receptor agonists. Biochem Pharmacol 2011; 81:1324-8. [PMID: 21420389 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2011.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2011] [Revised: 03/08/2011] [Accepted: 03/09/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The T cell mitogen and plant glycoprotein, phytohaemagglutinin (PHA), is commonly used to stimulate peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) preparations to produce IL-2, IL-5, GM-CSF and IFN-γ and so provide an assay to detect immunosuppressants like FK506 and anti-inflammatories such as PDE IV inhibitors. During the early discovery of novel TLR agonists for the treatment of asthma we initially showed that PHA-L is a specific human TLR4 agonist, devoid of effects on equivalent TLR4 null cells. This TLR4 agonism was not due to LPS contamination of PHA-L, as polymyxin B was ineffective and unlike PHA-L, LPS did not stimulate TLR5 or TLR2/6. Also this specific PHA-L agonism of TLR4 was shown for different PHA forms, for example, PHA-P. This TLR lectin pharmacology finding was further explored by testing a broader panel of plant lectin representatives for agonism against a suite of hrTLR cell reporter assays (2/6, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9). Soybean agglutinin (SBA), concanavalin A (ConA) and PHA lectin family members only stimulated extracellular TLRs (2/6, 4 and 5) probably due to lack of intracellular access, whilst other lectins were either pan-active (WGA) or inactive (AIL). Interestingly SBA only stimulated TLR4, ConA, TLR2/6 and PHA-L, TLR2/6, 4 and 5. As each lectin family exhibits different sugar ligand specificity for interaction, these results suggest that the pharmacology of this TLR agonism is encoded by the lectin's carbohydrate recognition motifs and the appropriate surface presentation of these motifs on different TLRs.
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- John Unitt
- Bioscience, AstraZeneca R&D Charnwood, Bakewell Road, Loughborough, UK.
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Draget KI, Taylor C. Chemical, physical and biological properties of alginates and their biomedical implications. Food Hydrocoll 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2009.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Sæther HV, Holme HK, Maurstad G, Smidsrød O, Stokke BT. Polyelectrolyte complex formation using alginate and chitosan. Carbohydr Polym 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2008.04.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Lagoumintzis G, Christofidou M, Dimitracopoulos G, Paliogianni F. Pseudomonas aeruginosa slime glycolipoprotein is a potent stimulant of tumor necrosis factor alpha gene expression and activation of transcription activators nuclear factor kappa B and activator protein 1 in human monocytes. Infect Immun 2003; 71:4614-22. [PMID: 12874341 PMCID: PMC165984 DOI: 10.1128/iai.71.8.4614-4622.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an opportunistic pathogen, causes infections associated with a high incidence of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised hosts. Production of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), primarily by cells of monocytic lineage, is a crucial event in the course of these infections. During in vivo infections with P. aeruginosa, both lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and extracellular slime glycolipoprotein (GLP) produced by mucoid and nonmucoid strains are released. In the present study, we sought to explore the relative contributions of these two bacterial products to TNF-alpha production by human monocytes. To this end, fresh human monocytes and THP-1 human monocytic cells were stimulated with P. aeruginosa LPS or GLP. GLP was found to be a more potent stimulus for TNF-alpha production (threefold higher) by human monocytes than LPS. Moreover, its effect was comparable to that of viable bacteria. Quantitative mRNA analysis revealed predominantly transcriptional regulation. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays and transfection assays demonstrated activation of NF-kappa B and activator protein 1 (AP-1). NF-kappa B activation by GLP was rapid and followed the same time course as that by viable bacteria, suggesting that bacteria could directly activate NF-kappa B through GLP. Moreover P. aeruginosa GLP induced the formation of AP-1 complex with delayed kinetics compared with NF-kappa B but much more efficiently than the homologous LPS. These results identify GLP as the most important stimulant for TNF-alpha production by human monocytes. Activation of NF-kappa B and AP-1 by P. aeruginosa GLP may be involved not only in TNF-alpha induction but also in many of the inflammatory responses triggered in the course of infection with P. aeruginosa.
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- George Lagoumintzis
- University of Patras Medical School, Department of Microbiology, Patras 26500, Greece
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Flo TH, Ryan L, Latz E, Takeuchi O, Monks BG, Lien E, Halaas Ø, Akira S, Skjåk-Braek G, Golenbock DT, Espevik T. Involvement of toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 and TLR4 in cell activation by mannuronic acid polymers. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:35489-95. [PMID: 12089142 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m201366200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The alginate capsule produced by the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is composed mainly of mannuronic acid polymers (poly-M) that have immunostimulating properties. Poly-M shares with lipopolysaccharide the ability to stimulate cytokine production from human monocytes in a CD14-dependent manner. In the present study we examined the role of Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 and TLR4 in responses to poly-M. Blocking antibodies to TLR2 and TLR4 partly inhibited tumor necrosis factor production induced by poly-M in human monocytes, and further inhibition was obtained by combining the antibodies. By transiently transfecting HEK293 cells, we found that membrane CD14 together with either TLR2 or TLR4/MD-2 could mediate activation by poly-M. Transfection of HEK293 cells with TLR2 and fluorescently labeled TLR4 followed by co-patching of TLR2 with an antibody revealed no association of these molecules on the plasma membrane. However, macrophages from the Tlr4 mutant C3H/HeJ mice and TLR4 knockout mice were completely non-responsive to poly-M, whereas the tumor necrosis factor release from TLR2 knockout macrophages was half of that seen with wild type cells. Taken together the results suggest that both TLR2 and TLR4 are involved in cell activation by poly-M and that TLR4 may be required in primary murine macrophages.
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- Trude H Flo
- Institute of Cancer Research and Molecular Biology and the Institute of Biotechnology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7489 Trondheim, Norway
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Flo TH, Ryan L, Kilaas L, Skjâk-Braek G, Ingalls RR, Sundan A, Golenbock DT, Espevik T. Involvement of CD14 and beta2-integrins in activating cells with soluble and particulate lipopolysaccharides and mannuronic acid polymers. Infect Immun 2000; 68:6770-6. [PMID: 11083794 PMCID: PMC97779 DOI: 10.1128/iai.68.12.6770-6776.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and related bacterial products can be recognized by host inflammatory cells in a particulate, bacterium-bound form, as well as in various soluble, released forms. In the present study we have compared the mechanisms used by LPS, detoxified LPS (DLPS), and mannuronic acid polymers (M-polymers), in solution or covalently linked to particles, in stimulating monocytes to tumor necrosis factor (TNF) production. The addition of recombinant LPS binding protein (LBP) and/or soluble CD14 (sCD14) enhanced the production of TNF from monocytes stimulated with soluble LPS, DLPS, or M-polymer, but did not affect the response to M-polymer or DLPS attached to particles. Treatment of monocytes with antibody to CD14, CD18, or CD11b showed that CD14, but not CR3 (CD11b/CD18), mediated monocyte TNF production in response to the soluble antigens. In contrast, anti-CD14, anti-CD11b and anti-CD18 monoclonal antibodies all inhibited the response to the particulate stimuli. On the other hand, B975, a synthetic analog of Rhodobacter capsulatus lipid A, completely abrogated the monocyte TNF response induced by LPS but did not affect the TNF induction by DLPS or M-polymer, either in soluble or particulate forms. These data demonstrate that the engagement of immune receptors by bacterial products such as LPS, DLPS, and M-polymer is dependent upon the presentation form of their constituent carbohydrates, and that factors such as aggregation state, acylation, carbohydrate chain length, and solid versus liquid phase of bacterial ligands influence the mechanisms used by cells in mediating proinflammatory responses.
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- T H Flo
- Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, Division of Applied Chemistry, Trondheim, Norway.
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