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Hussain R, Hughes CS, Siligardi G. Correction To: Enzyme-Ligand Interaction Monitored by Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism. Methods Mol Biol 2020; 2089:C1. [PMID: 32157659 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0163-1_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The original version of the chapter Enzyme-Ligand Interaction Monitored by Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism was previously published non-open access. It has now been changed to open access under a CC BY 4.0 license and the copyright holder has been updated to 'The Author(s).' The book has also been updated with the change.
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Littlewood S, Tattersall H, Hughes CS, Hussain R, Ma P, Harding SE, Nakayama J, Phillips-Jones MK. The gelatinase biosynthesis-activating pheromone binds and stabilises the FsrB membrane protein in Enterococcus faecalis quorum sensing. FEBS Lett 2019; 594:553-563. [PMID: 31598959 PMCID: PMC7028047 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.13634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2019] [Revised: 09/27/2019] [Accepted: 09/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Quorum‐sensing mechanisms regulate gene expression in response to changing cell‐population density detected through pheromones. In Enterococcus faecalis, Fsr quorum sensing produces and responds to the gelatinase biosynthesis‐activating pheromone (GBAP). Here we establish that the enterococcal FsrB membrane protein has a direct role connected with GBAP by showing that GBAP binds to purified FsrB. Far‐UV CD measurements demonstrated a predominantly α‐helical protein exhibiting a small level of conformational flexibility. Fivefold (400 μm) GBAP stabilised FsrB (80 μm) secondary structure. FsrB thermal denaturation in the presence and absence of GBAP revealed melting temperatures of 70.1 and 60.8 °C, respectively, demonstrating GBAP interactions and increased thermal stability conferred by GBAP. Addition of GBAP also resulted in tertiary structural changes, confirming GBAP binding.
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- Sean Littlewood
- School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
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- School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
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- School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.,Diamond Light Source Ltd., Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd., Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, UK
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- National Centre for Macromolecular Hydrodynamics, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, UK
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Graduate School, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- National Centre for Macromolecular Hydrodynamics, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, UK
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Siligardi G, Hughes CS, Hussain R. Characterisation of sensor kinase by CD spectroscopy: golden rules and tips. Biochem Soc Trans 2018; 46:1627-1642. [PMID: 30514767 PMCID: PMC6299240 DOI: 10.1042/bst20180222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2018] [Revised: 09/19/2018] [Accepted: 09/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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This is a review that describes the golden rules and tips on how to characterise the molecular interactions of membrane sensor kinase proteins with ligands using mainly circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy. CD spectroscopy is essential for this task as any conformational change observed in the far-UV (secondary structures (α-helix, β-strands, poly-proline of type II, β-turns, irregular and folding) and near-UV regions [local environment of the aromatic side-chains of amino acid residues (Phe, Tyr and Trp) and ligands (drugs) and prosthetic groups (porphyrins, cofactors and coenzymes (FMN, FAD, NAD))] upon ligand addition to the protein can be used to determine qualitatively and quantitatively ligand-binding interactions. Advantages of using CD versus other techniques will be discussed. The difference CD spectra of the protein-ligand mixtures calculated subtracting the spectra of the ligand at various molar ratios can be used to determine the type of conformational changes induced by the ligand in terms of the estimated content of the various elements of protein secondary structure. The highly collimated microbeam and high photon flux of Diamond Light Source B23 beamline for synchrotron radiation circular dichroism (SRCD) enable the use of minimal amount of membrane proteins (7.5 µg for a 0.5 mg/ml solution) for high-throughput screening. Several examples of CD titrations of membrane proteins with a variety of ligands are described herein including the protocol tips that would guide the choice of the appropriate parameters to conduct these titrations by CD/SRCD in the best possible way.
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- Giuliano Siligardi
- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, U.K
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, U.K
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, U.K.
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Ruzza P, Vitale RM, Hussain R, Montini A, Honisch C, Pozzebon A, Hughes CS, Biondi B, Amodeo P, Sechi G, Siligardi G. Chaperone-like effect of ceftriaxone on HEWL aggregation: A spectroscopic and computational study. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2018. [PMID: 29524538 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2018.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Lysozyme is a widely distributed enzyme present in a variety of tissue and body fluids. Human and hen egg white lysozyme are used as validated model to study protein folding and stability and to understand protein misfolding and aggregation. We recently found that ceftriaxone, a β-lactam antibiotic able to overcome the blood-brain barrier, successfully eliminated the cellular toxic effects of misfolded proteins as Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP) and α-synuclein. To further understand the anti-amyloidogenic properties of ceftriaxone, we studied its activity towards lysozyme aggregation with the aim to investigate a possible chaperone-like activity of this molecule. METHODS Here we present the results obtained from fluorescence and synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopies and from molecular docking and molecular dynamics about the lysozyme-ceftriaxone interaction at neutral and acidic pH values. RESULTS We found that ceftriaxone exhibits comparable affinity constants to lysozyme in both experimental pH conditions and that its addition enhanced lysozyme stability reducing its aggregation propensity in acidic conditions. Computational methods allowed the identification of the putative binding site of ceftriaxone, thus rationalizing the spectroscopic results. CONCLUSIONS Spectroscopy data and molecular dynamics indicated a protective effect of ceftriaxone on pathological aggregation phenomena suggesting a chaperone-like effect of this molecule on protein folding. General significance These results, in addition to our previous studies on α-synuclein and GFAP, confirm the property of ceftriaxone to inhibit the pathological protein aggregation of lysozyme also by a chaperone-like mechanism, extending the potential therapeutic application of this molecule to some forms of human hereditary systemic amyloidosis.
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- Paolo Ruzza
- Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry of CNR, Padua Unit, Padua, Italy.
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry of CNR, Padua Unit, Padua, Italy
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- Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry of CNR, Padua Unit, Padua, Italy
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- Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry of CNR, Padua Unit, Padua, Italy
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry of CNR, Padua Unit, Padua, Italy
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- Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry of CNR, Pozzuoli, Italy
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- Department of Clinical, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, Medical School, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, United Kingdom
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Hussain R, Hughes CS, Jávorfi T, Siligardi G, Williams P, Bonev BB. To Boil an Egg: Substrate Binding Affects Critical Stability in Thermal Unfolding of Proteins. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:2213-2218. [PMID: 29401389 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Thermal unfolding of proteins is used extensively in screening of drug candidates because molecular interactions with ligands and substrates affect strongly protein stability, transition temperature, and cooperativity. We use synchrotron radiation circular dichroism to monitor the thermal evolution of secondary structure in proteins as they approach the melting point and the impact of substrate on their thermal behavior. Using Landau free energy expansion, we quantify transition strength and proximity to a critical point through the relative separation τ+ between the transition temperature Tm and the spinodal T+, obtained from the equation of state. The weakest transition was observed in lysozyme with τ+ = -0.0167 followed by holo albumin with τ+ = -0.0208 with the strongest transition in monomeric apo albumin τ+ = -0.0242. A structural transition at 45 °C in apo albumin leads to a noncooperative melt with τ+ = -0.00532 and amyloidogenic increase in beta content.
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- Rohanah Hussain
- Diamond Light Source Ltd. , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, U.K
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd. , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, U.K
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd. , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, U.K
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd. , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, U.K
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham , Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, U.K
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham , Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, U.K
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Hughes CS, Longo E, Phillips-Jones MK, Hussain R. Characterisation of the selective binding of antibiotics vancomycin and teicoplanin by the VanS receptor regulating type A vancomycin resistance in the enterococci. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2017; 1861:1951-1959. [PMID: 28511809 PMCID: PMC5482315 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2017.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2017] [Revised: 05/09/2017] [Accepted: 05/10/2017] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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A-type resistance towards "last-line" glycopeptide antibiotic vancomycin in the leading hospital acquired infectious agent, the enterococci, is the most common in the UK. Resistance is regulated by the VanRASA two-component system, comprising the histidine sensor kinase VanSA and the partner response regulator VanRA. The nature of the activating ligand for VanSA has not been identified, therefore this work sought to identify and characterise ligand(s) for VanSA. In vitro approaches were used to screen the structural and activity effects of a range of potential ligands with purified VanSA protein. Of the screened ligands (glycopeptide antibiotics vancomycin and teicoplanin, and peptidoglycan components N-acetylmuramic acid, D-Ala-D-Ala and Ala-D-y-Glu-Lys-D-Ala-D-Ala) only glycopeptide antibiotics vancomycin and teicoplanin were found to bind VanSA with different affinities (vancomycin 70μM; teicoplanin 30 and 170μM), and were proposed to bind via exposed aromatic residues tryptophan and tyrosine. Furthermore, binding of the antibiotics induced quicker, longer-lived phosphorylation states for VanSA, proposing them as activators of type A vancomycin resistance in the enterococci.
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- C S Hughes
- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Research & Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot OX11 0DE, United Kingdom; Membranes, Membrane Proteins & Peptides Research Group, School of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, United Kingdom
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Research & Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot OX11 0DE, United Kingdom
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- Membranes, Membrane Proteins & Peptides Research Group, School of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, United Kingdom.
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Research & Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot OX11 0DE, United Kingdom.
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Primary isolation of infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILT) from tracheal samples from 11 suspected field outbreaks was attempted using a variety of avian cell cultures, Vero cells and embryonated chicken eggs. Tracheal smears of each field sample were also examined by electron microscopy (EM) for the presence of herpesvirus particles. Chick embryo liver cells (CELi) appeared to be the most rapid and sensitive isolation system of those examined with chick kidney (CK) a satisfactory alternative, both demonstrating virus in all 11 samples on first passage. Chick embryo kidney, chick embryo lung and the dropped chorioallantoic membrane of eggs were all less sensitive. Chick embryo fibroblasts and Vero cells were of no particular value for the primary isolation of ILT virus. EM was a useful method of rapid virus identification and confirmation but at least 3.51og10/0.1ml of infectious virus was required to be detected by this method.
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- C S Hughes
- Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Liverpool, South Wirral, England
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Page RL, Hughes CS, Huyan S, Sagris J, Trogdon M. Modulation of P-glycoprotein-mediated doxorubicin resistance in canine cell lines. Anticancer Res 2000; 20:3533-8. [PMID: 11131658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To characterize the chemosensitivity of wild type and multidrug resistant canine cell lines and determine the relative potency of the P-glycoprotein (Pgp) modulators verapamil, tamoxifen and a cyclosporin-A analog (PSC833). METHODS The dose required to reduce cell proliferation to 50% of control (ED50) for doxorubicin (DOX) and cisplatin was determined for canine cell lines 4TG11-50c, OS2.4wt, OS2.4DX and the human cell line MCF7/DX. The effect of Pgp chemomodulators on cytotoxicity was quantified by determining the dose modifying factor [DMF = (ED50 of Dox alone)/(ED50 of Dox + Modulator)]. Relative potency of modulators was defined as DMFMOD1/DMFMOD2. Pgp function was assessed by DiOC2 dye retention and by accumulation of DOX after chemomodulator addition. RESULTS All cell lines were equally cisplatin sensitive but varied in doxorubicin resistance. PSC833 was 12X, 5X and 2X more potent than tamoxifen in 4TG11-50c, OS2.4WT and OS2.4DX, respectively. Dye retention was a better indicator of chemomodulator-enhanced cytotoxicity than was DOX accumulation. CONCLUSIONS Pgp inhibition is cell line, modulator and concentration dependent but the cytotoxic potency of a modulator may be predicted by the extent of dye retention in canine drug resistant cell lines.
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MESH Headings
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1/antagonists & inhibitors
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1/metabolism
- Animals
- Antibiotics, Antineoplastic/pharmacology
- Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology
- Cell Division/drug effects
- Cell Line
- Cell Survival/drug effects
- Cisplatin/pharmacology
- Coloring Agents/pharmacokinetics
- Cyclosporins/pharmacology
- Dogs
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Doxorubicin/pharmacology
- Drug Resistance, Multiple
- Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
- Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
- Drug Synergism
- Humans
- Kidney/cytology
- Kidney/drug effects
- Kidney/metabolism
- Mammary Neoplasms, Animal/drug therapy
- Mammary Neoplasms, Animal/metabolism
- Mammary Neoplasms, Animal/pathology
- Osteosarcoma/drug therapy
- Osteosarcoma/metabolism
- Osteosarcoma/pathology
- Tamoxifen/pharmacology
- Tumor Cells, Cultured/drug effects
- Verapamil/pharmacology
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- R L Page
- North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA.
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Hughes CS, Vaden SL, Manaugh CA, Price GS, Hudson LC. Modulation of doxorubicin concentration by cyclosporin A in brain and testicular barrier tissues expressing P-glycoprotein in rats. J Neurooncol 1998; 37:45-54. [PMID: 9525837 DOI: 10.1023/a:1005900908540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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P-glycoprotein (Pgp) is an inducible transmembrane protein that functions as an ATP-dependent efflux pump. Pgp is normally expressed in two types of cells: specialized epithelial cells with secretory/excretory functions (e.g., proximal renal tubules) and specialized endothelial cells (e.g., the capillary endothelial cells of the blood-brain barrier). In normal tissues, Pgp could exert a cytoprotective effect by facilitating excretion of drugs. It follows that inhibition of Pgp would alter the pharmacokinetics of drugs, like doxorubicin, in cells that express Pgp. The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not inhibition of Pgp by cyclosporin A (CsA) facilitated the transport of certain drugs across the blood tissue barriers of the brain and testes (barriers tissues expressing Pgp). 120 retired male breeder CD Fisher rats were randomly assigned to groups of 4 rats each. They were given either CsA, CsA vehicle, or saline followed by doxorubicin (Dox), cisplatin (CDDP), Evan's blue (EB), sodium fluorescein (NaF), or horseradish peroxidase (HRP). There was a CsA dose dependent increase in the tissue concentration of doxorubicin in brain and testes, but platinum (Pt) concentrations, derived from CDDP, were unaffected. Unlike CDDP, Dox, can be effluxed by Pgp. These increases in Dox concentrations were not due to altered vascular permeability as a result of CsA treatment as determined by lack of EB. NaF, or HRP in brain parenchyma. Modulation of Pgp function may prove to be useful for improving chemotherapy efficacy for patients with malignancies affecting tissues with blood-tissue barriers.
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- C S Hughes
- Department of Anatomy, Physiological Sciences, and Radiology, North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh 27606, USA
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Steingold SF, Sharp NJ, McGahan MC, Hughes CS, Dunn SE, Page RL. Characterization of canine MDR1 mRNA: its abundance in drug resistant cell lines and in vivo. Anticancer Res 1998; 18:393-400. [PMID: 9568108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Overexpression of the MDR1 gene often contributes to antineoplastic drug resistance. The purpose of this study was to characterize the canine MDR1 mRNA homologue and evaluate its expression in both canine cell lines and lymphomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS The abundance of the canine MDR1 transcript was assessed in three resistant cell lines and in pretreatment canine lymphoma using semi-quantitative RT/PCR. RESULTS Canine transcript was 4.5 Kb with 93% sequence homology to human MDR1, and 90% homology to mouse and hamster equivalent genes. Increase in MDR1 transcript levels was observed in three progressively resistant canine cell lines. De novo MDR1 transcript expression was independent of response to therapy in dogs with lymphoma. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that the canine MDR1 mRNA homologue is structurally similar to the human transcript. Expression of MDR1 mRNA correlates with in vitro drug sensitivity but does not correlate with in vivo doxorubicin sensitivity in canine lymphoma.
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- S F Steingold
- North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh 27606, USA
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Lindberg RA, Dewhirst MW, Buckley BJ, Hughes CS, Whorton AR. Ca(2+)-dependent nitric oxide release in endothelial but not R3230Ac rat mammary adenocarcinoma cells. Am J Physiol 1996; 271:C332-7. [PMID: 8760062 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1996.271.1.c332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We have characterized the ability of several cell types associated with the microvasculature of solid tumors to release nitric oxide (NO.) in response to increases in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]c). EA.hy926 immortalized human umbilical vein endothelial cells (EC), rat fibroblasts (RFL), and tumorigenic cells isolated from R3230Ac rat mammary adenocarcinoma (MaC) were treated with thapsigargin (TG), an inhibitor of Ca(2+)-ATPase. NO. output was measured via a chemiluminescence detection system. Baseline NO. output was detectable only for EC. TG caused a significant increase in EC NO. output that could be blocked with NG-monomethyl-L-arginine and restored with L-arginine. TG did not stimulate NO. release from RFL or MaC cells, despite elevating [Ca2+]c in all cells. A Ca(2+)-dependent isoform of NO synthase (eNOS) was detected by immunoblot only in EC. These data indicate that EC, but not RFL or MaC, are capable of Ca(2+)-dependent NO. release and suggest that any Ca(2+)-dependent NO. release within this tumor is primarily of endothelial (and not tumorigenic cell) origin.
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- R A Lindberg
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham 27710, USA
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BACKGROUND Despite extensive investigation, the role of MDR of human cancer remains unclear. Canine lymphoma is a spontaneously arising correlate of human non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that may complement other in vivo models for investigation of issues related to MDR. METHODS Immunoreactivity of primary antibodies to the human MDR1 gene product, p-glycoprotein 170 (Pgp), were determined in both a retrospective (n=76) and prospective (n=15) survey of canine lymphoma. Known prognostic factors and response to chemotherapy were correlated with categorical designations of Pgp expression. RESULTS When combined, 61 of 91 samples (67%) were negative for Pgp, 16 of 91 (17.5%) had strong Pgp immunoreactivity in >50% of the malignant population and 14 of 91 (15.5%) had Pgp reactivity in 10-50% of cells. Pgp expression was greater after relapse compared with pretreatment samples [C494 83% vs. 25%; P=0.012 and C219 73% vs. 27%; P=0.04]. Pretreatment Pgp expression was an independent negative predictor of overall survival (median=225d vs. 367d; P=0.02). CONCLUSIONS Pgp expression in spontaneous canine lymphoma is similar to that reported in human non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Use of this model may expedite investigation of novel strategies for MDR prevention or modulation.
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MESH Headings
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1/analysis
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1/genetics
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Disease Models, Animal
- Dog Diseases/drug therapy
- Dog Diseases/genetics
- Dog Diseases/pathology
- Dogs
- Drug Resistance, Neoplasm/genetics
- Forecasting
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Humans
- Lymph Nodes/pathology
- Lymphoma/drug therapy
- Lymphoma/genetics
- Lymphoma/pathology
- Lymphoma/veterinary
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/genetics
- Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/genetics
- Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/pathology
- Phenotype
- Prognosis
- Prospective Studies
- Retrospective Studies
- Survival Rate
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- J J Lee
- Department of Anatomy, Physiological Sciences, and RAdiology, North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, 27606, USA
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Dunn SE, Hughes CS, LeBlanc GA, Cullen JM. Overexpression of a p-glycoprotein in hepatocellular carcinomas from woodchuck hepatitis virus-infected woodchucks (Marmota monax). Hepatology 1996; 23:662-8. [PMID: 8666315 DOI: 10.1002/hep.510230402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The leading cause of human hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) is hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Woodchucks infected with a closely related hepadnavirus, woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV), serve as a model for HBV because woodchucks chronically infected with WHV also develop hepatocellular carcinomas. Increased expression of p-glycoprotein (pgp) in human HCCs is a common obstacle in successful cancer chemotherapy. Pgps are encoded by a family of multidrug-resistance (MDR) genes. Livers from uninfected and WHV-infected woodchucks were examined to determine if pgp was expressed in HCCs and if there was a difference in expression between HCCs and nonneoplastic liver. A 170-kd protein was identified by Western blot in HCCs, whereas, constitutive pgp was not detected in normal liver taken from the same animals in 3 of 3 cases. Immunolocalization of the pgp with a panel of monoclonal antibodies revealed intensification of staining in 7 of 20 foci and 12 of 22 HCCs from six animals. Using primers for the human MDR1 gene, a single product was detected by reverse-transcribed polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) from HCCs. We have shown an increase in pgp in HCCs compared with normal liver from WHV-infected woodchucks. This is the first example of the induction of a pgp in a naturally hepadnavirus infected rodent system. It suggests the woodchuck can be a useful model for the study of the acquisition of resistance to chemotherapeutic agents in virally induced HCCs.
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- S E Dunn
- Department of Toxicology, North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, USA
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Hudson LC, Hughes CS, Bold-Fletcher NO, Vaden SL. Cerebrospinal fluid collection in rats: modification of a previous technique. Lab Anim Sci 1994; 44:358-61. [PMID: 7983848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Modification of a previously published technique for cerebrospinal fluid collection in rats is described. This technique uses general anesthesia, a supporting platform to flex the head-neck junction, a surgical approach to the dorsal atlanto-occipital region, and a micromanipulator to hold and control the approach of the collection needle. Critical steps for success of the procedure are correct positioning, avoiding premature incision of the subarachnoid space, and alignment of the collection needle with the midline and longitudinal axis of the head. The authors had a 95% success rate in obtaining > 0.1 ml of cerebrospinal fluid, using this technique.
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- L C Hudson
- Department of Anatomy, Physiological Sciences, and Radiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27606
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Laboratory studies and clinical trials are exploring the use of hypoxia-directed cytotoxic agents as adjuncts to radiotherapy. Because hypoxia and the microenvironmental inadequacies associated with hypoxia in solid tumours inhibit cell proliferation, an essential requirement for the successful use of hypoxia-directed drugs in cancer therapy is that these drugs be toxic to quiescent tumour cells, as well as tumour cells progressing rapidly through the cell cycle. The experiments reported here compared the cytotoxicities of mitomycin C and porfiromycin to exponentially growing and plateau phase cultures of EMT6 mouse mammary tumour cells. The proliferative status of the cultures did not influence the cytotoxicity of mitomycin C under either aerobic or hypoxic conditions, or the cytotoxicity of porfiromycin in air. Exponentially growing cultures were slightly more sensitive than plateau phase cultures to porfiromycin in hypoxia, but the difference between the sensitivities of proliferating and quiescent cells was much smaller than the difference between aerobic and hypoxic cells. No evidence for repair of potentially lethal damage was found after treatment with porfiromycin in air or in hypoxia; this is in agreement with previous findings for mitomycin C. Mitomycin C and porfiromycin therefore exhibit the toxicity to quiescent cells needed for effective use as hypoxia-directed drugs for the treatment of solid tumours.
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- S Rockwell
- Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8040, USA
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Bizanek R, Chowdary D, Arai H, Kasai M, Hughes CS, Sartorelli AC, Rockwell S, Tomasz M. Adducts of mitomycin C and DNA in EMT6 mouse mammary tumor cells: effects of hypoxia and dicumarol on adduct patterns. Cancer Res 1993; 53:5127-34. [PMID: 7693331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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6-CH3-3H-Mitomycin C (MC) was used to identify MC-DNA adducts formed in EMT6 mouse mammary tumor cells. DNA was isolated from cells treated with 3H-MC. The DNA was enzymatically digested, and the digest was analyzed for 3H-labeled adducts by high performance liquid chromatography. All four major adducts previously isolated and characterized in cell-free systems were detected: two different monoadducts and two bisadducts forming DNA-interstrand and DNA-intrastrand cross-links, respectively. No MC-DNA adducts other than the DNA interstrand cross-link had been shown previously to be formed in living cells. A MC-deoxyguanosine adduct of unknown structure was also detected in DNA from EMT6 cells; this adduct was also formed with purified EMT6 DNA. High performance liquid chromatography analysis was further applied to study the relationship between DNA adducts and cytotoxicity. The number of adducts increased with the concentration of MC in both aerobic and hypoxic cells. At a constant drug level, more adducts were observed in cells treated under hypoxic conditions than in cells treated aerobically; at 2 microM MC, 4.8 x 10(-7) and 3.1 x 10(-7) adducts/nucleotide were observed under hypoxic and aerobic conditions, respectively. The increased adduct frequency under hypoxia correlates with the known increased cytotoxicity of MC to EMT6 cells under hypoxic conditions. In addition, a higher ratio of cross-linked adducts to monoadducts was observed in hypoxic cells. The high performance liquid chromatography techniques were also used to examine the effects of dicumarol (DIC) on adduct patterns in cells treated simultaneously with 3H-MC. The MC-DNA adduct frequencies in DIC-treated cells were increased 1.5-fold under hypoxia and decreased 1.6-fold under aerobic conditions from those observed without DIC. This finding correlates with the known DIC-induced increase and decrease in the cytotoxicity of MC in hypoxic and aerobic EMT6 cells, respectively. The monoadduct resulting from monofunctionally activated MC was suppressed by DIC under both hypoxic and aerobic conditions. In addition, DIC induced the selective formation of an unknown DNA-associated radiolabeled substance in hypoxic cells; this is hypothesized to be a cytotoxic DNA lesion produced by a DIC-stimulated oxido-reductase. The methodology developed to measure MC adduct patterns may be useful as an indicator of distinct enzymatic activation processes for this drug.
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- R Bizanek
- Department of Chemistry, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York 10021
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Radiobiological data and measurements with O2 microelectrodes show that EMT6 tumors implanted into aged mice have a higher proportion of radioresistant, hypoxic cells than do tumors implanted into young adult animals; radiation is less effective in killing cells in tumors in old mice than in tumors in young adult mice. The studies reported here examine the effects of porfiromycin (POR), a bioreductive alkylating agent shown previously to be preferentially toxic to hypoxic EMT6 cells in vitro and in solid tumors in young adult mice. POR was effective in attacking the hypoxic cells of tumors in aged mice; regimens combining POR with x-rays overcame the radioresistance of tumors in the old animals. Comparisons of the distribution of 3H-labeled POR in young and old mice showed that tumors in aged mice had a slightly larger proportion of areas with necrotic features, which bound higher levels of tritiated POR than did healthy tumor regions without necrotic features. Studies of histology, lissamine green distributions, binding of tritiated POR, and radiation and POR cytotoxicity suggested that tumors in old mice contained a larger proportion of poorly perfused tumor cells, and that cells in these regions were resistant to radiation and sensitive to POR. Studies of the distribution of POR in normal tissues and of the toxicity of POR to bone marrow progenitor cells (CFU-GM) revealed no differences between young and old animals, showing that the differences observed in tumors reflected differences in the microenvironments within the tumors, rather than differences in the processing of drug in young and old animals.
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- S Rockwell
- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Therapeutic Radiology, New Haven, Connecticut 06510-8040
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Hansen RL, Evans AT, Gillogley KM, Hughes CS, Krener PG. Perinatal toxicology screening. J Perinatol 1992; 12:220-4. [PMID: 1432276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Accurate identification of substance abusing mothers and their infants is critical for appropriate medical management as well as the collection of accurate information on the effects of illicit drug use on perinatal morbidity, mortality, and long-term neurobehavioral outcome in the infants. This study examines the differences found using two methods for urine toxicology screening at the time of obstetrical admission to the hospital. The institution of universal screening identified significantly more women than were previously identified through the use of a risk-directed protocol (P less than .0001). Women identified using either protocol were significantly more likely than toxicology-negative women to have had poor prenatal care and to have smoked and used alcohol during pregnancy (P less than .001). In the population studied, the multiple criteria needed to accurately identify mothers with positive-toxicology screens would also include screening over one half of the toxicology-negative mothers.
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- R L Hansen
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Davis School of Medicine
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Rockwell S, Irvin CG, Kelley M, Hughes CS, Yabuki H, Porter E, Fischer JJ. Effects of hyperbaric oxygen and a perfluorooctylbromide emulsion on the radiation responses of tumors and normal tissues in rodents. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1992; 22:87-93. [PMID: 1727131 DOI: 10.1016/0360-3016(92)90986-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Perfluorochemical emulsions are being examined in many laboratory and clinical studies as possible adjuncts to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The studies reported here examine the clinical potential of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) in combination with a highly concentrated perfluorochemical emulsion (Oxygent) containing 100% w/v perfluorooctylbromide (PFOB). HBO alone produced only a small improvement in the radiation response of BA1112 tumors in WAG/rij rats, while regimens combining HBO with Oxygent produced much greater radiation sensitization. A sham emulsion, formulated without the O2-carrying PFOB, did not alter the radiation response of the tumors in comparison with that seen with HBO alone. Neither HBO nor Oxygent plus HBO altered the radiosensitivity of bone marrow progenitor cells in BALB/c mice. HBO alone augmented skin reactions in BALB/c mice, but addition of Oxygent did not alter the skin reactions in comparison to those seen with HBO alone. Regimens combining Oxygent with HBO selectively increased the radiation sensitivity of tumors relative to normal tissues, thereby enhancing the therapeutic ratio. These results support the potential usefulness of perfluorochemical emulsions and HBO in clinical radiation therapy.
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- S Rockwell
- Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510-8040
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Rockwell S, Kelley M, Irvin CG, Hughes CS, Yabuki H, Porter E, Fischer JJ. Preclinical evaluation of Oxygent as an adjunct to radiotherapy. Biomater Artif Cells Immobilization Biotechnol 1992; 20:883-93. [PMID: 1391528 DOI: 10.3109/10731199209119735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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These studies examine the potential value of a concentrated emulsion of perfluorooctylbromide (perflubron; Oxygent, Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp.) as an adjunct to radiotherapy. The effects of Oxygent on solid tumors were examined using EMT6 mammary tumors in BALB/c mice and BA1112 rhabdomyosarcomas in WAG/rij rats. Treatment with Oxygent plus O2, carbogen (95% O2/5% CO2), or hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) increased the effects of radiation on the tumors. Analyses of tumor cell survival curves and measurements of intratumor pO2 showed that this potentiation reflected an increase in the proportion of well-oxygenated tumor cells. Neither treatment of the animals with carbogen, O2, or HBO alone nor treatment of air-breathing rodents with Oxygent produced changes of similar magnitude. Treatment with a vehicle emulsion containing all the components of Oxygent except the perflubron did not alter tumor radiosensitivity, showing that tumor radiosensitization required the oxygen-transporting perfluorocarbon, and did not result from any biologic or physiologic effects of other components of the emulsion. These studies also examined the effects of Oxygent on the radiation responses of mouse skin and bone marrow. Oxygent selectively increased the radiation sensitivity of tumors relative to these normal tissues, thereby increasing the therapeutic ratio and producing therapeutic gain. Oxygent appears to warrant further testing as an adjunct to cancer therapy.
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- S Rockwell
- Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510-8040
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Rockwell S, Kelley M, Irvin CG, Hughes CS, Porter E, Yabuki H, Fischer JJ. Modulation of tumor oxygenation and radiosensitivity by a perfluorooctylbromide emulsion. Radiother Oncol 1991; 22:92-8. [PMID: 1957007 DOI: 10.1016/0167-8140(91)90003-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The effect of a concentrated perfluorooctylbromide emulsion (Oxygent) on the radiosensitivity and oxygenation of solid tumors was examined using EMT6 mammary tumors in BALB/c mice and BA1112 rhabdomyosarcomas in WAG/rij rats. Treatment with Oxygent plus carbogen or oxygen breathing increased the radiosensitivity of both tumors. Analysis of tumor cell survival data and polarographic measurements of intratumoral pO2 indicated that this potentiation reflected an increase in the proportion of well-oxygenated tumor cells. Treatments with carbogen breathing alone, with Oxygent plus air-breathing, or with a vehicle emulsion containing all the components except the perfluorocarbon did not produce comparable improvements in tumor radiosensitivity. Concentrated perfluorooctylbromide emulsions appear to warrant further development and preclinical testing as adjuncts to cancer therapy.
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- S Rockwell
- Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510-8040
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Field outbreaks of infectious laryngotracheitis in commercial chicken flocks in England and Wales between 1985 and 1988 were investigated. Material from 49 outbreaks was submitted to Liverpool University, and virus was isolated from 17 of them. The results of a questionnaire on each outbreak are described. Generally, the disease was of moderate severity, and mainly affected laying flocks; it occurred in birds of a wide age range but most of the outbreaks were in birds between 10 and 20 weeks of age. The disease was not seen more frequently at any particular time of the year, and there was no evidence of a common source of infection. Three of the affected flocks had recently been moved and were beginning to lay; these stresses may have caused the re-excretion of latent virus.
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- C S Hughes
- Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Liverpool, Neston, South Wirral
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Subconfluent, log-phase Chinese hamster ovary cells induced the major heat-shock proteins (hsp) when cells were refed, 40 hours after seeding. This method of inducing heat-shock proteins was also obtained by refeeding with fresh serum-free media, but not with media with a long shelf life or with media prepared without glutamine. It was observed that addition of glutamine alone to cultures at 40 hours post-seeding induced heat-shock proteins. Addition of ammonium chloride, however, had no discernible effect on heat-shock protein synthesis. Northern blot analysis indicated that this phenomenon reflected an increase in the levels of message for the constitutive/inducible member of the hsp 70 family, but not the non-constitutive member. To determine the effect of this induction on heat sensitivity, unfed and 'heat-shock-induced' refed cultures were heated at 45 degrees C. No significant difference in cell survival was observed. Therefore glutamine is the necessary ingredient required for the induction of heat-shock proteins and this method of inducing heat-shock proteins does not alter heat sensitivity.
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- J W Cai
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263
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Tomasz M, Hughes CS, Chowdary D, Keyes SR, Lipman R, Sartorelli AC, Rockwell S. Isolation, identification, and assay of [3H]-porfiromycin adducts of EMT6 mouse mammary tumor cell DNA: effects of hypoxia and dicumarol on adduct patterns. Cancer Commun (Lond) 1991; 3:213-23. [PMID: 1714285 DOI: 10.3727/095535491820873227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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[3H]-(N-la-methyl) Porfiromycin (POR) was employed to detect and identify the radiolabeled mono- and bis-adducts formed in living EMT6 mouse mammary tumor cells under different conditions. To provide authentic standard adducts, calf-thymus DNA was treated with POR under reductive activation, then digested to nucleosides and POR-nucleoside adducts. The three major adducts formed were isolated by HPLC and authenticated. Two were mono-adducts, composed of deoxyguanosine linked at its N2-position to C-1 of POR and of 10-decarbamoyl POR. The third was a bis-adduct, in which POR was crosslinked to two deoxyguanosines at their N2-positions. DNA from [3H]-POR treated EMT6 cells was digested an analyzed by HPLC. DNA-associated label was located in thymidine and in two mono-adducts and one bis-adduct identical to those described above. Label in thymidine resulted from N-demethylation of POR and reincorporation of label into new thymidylate residues. Adducts were formed more abundantly in hypoxia than in air. In addition, the mono-adduct to crosslink ratios were different, approximately 1:1 and 2:1 for hypoxic and aerobic cells, respectively. The different patterns of alkylation in air and hypoxia may be related to the greater toxicity of POR in hypoxia. When cells were treated simultaneously with POR and dicumarol, adduct levels were lower, and a new, unknown adduct was observed primarily under hypoxia; these changes may be related to the altered toxicity of POR in the presence of dicumarol. The HPLC assay detected simultaneously the full array of stable mono- and bis-adducts in DNA with good sensitivity (greater than or equal to 2 x 10(6) adducts/nucleotide) and excellent reproducibility. This assay should be generally applicable to all cells and tissues when MC or POR with high specific radioactivity can be employed.
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- M Tomasz
- Department of Chemistry, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York 10021
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Hughes CS, Williams RA, Gaskell RM, Jordan FT, Bradbury JM, Bennett M, Jones RC. Latency and reactivation of infectious laryngotracheitis vaccine virus. Arch Virol 1991; 121:213-8. [PMID: 1662039 DOI: 10.1007/bf01316755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Latency and reactivation of a commercial infectious laryngotracheitis virus vaccine were demonstrated in live chickens. Virus was re-isolated at intervals between seven and fourteen weeks post-vaccination and this may be of epizootiological significance.
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- C S Hughes
- Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Liverpool, England
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Rockwell S, Hughes CS, Kennedy KA. Effect of host age on microenvironmental heterogeneity and efficacy of combined modality therapy in solid tumors. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1991; 20:259-63. [PMID: 1899412 DOI: 10.1016/0360-3016(91)90101-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The implications of microenvironmental heterogeneity in solid tumors for combined modality therapy were assessed by comparing the microenvironmental profiles and therapeutic responses of EMT6 tumors implanted into young and aging mice. The radiobiological hypoxic fraction of tumors in aging mice was shown to be 41% (95% CL, 28-60%), while that in young adult hosts is 19% (95% CL, 14-25%). These microenvironmental differences were also seen in perfusion studies and in studies of the intratumoral pH and pO2 in young and aging mice. The therapeutic importance of microenvironmental factors can be examined in this system, as the tumor cells per se are identical, but the proportions of tumor cells in adverse microenvironments are different. Studies described here show that mitomycin C, an agent with selective toxicity to hypoxic cells, produced greater antineoplastic effects in tumors in aging mice when used alone or as an adjunct to radiation. Combined-modality regimens incorporating agents selectively toxic to hypoxic cells may be especially valuable in improving the results of radiotherapy in tumors in which the tumor-host interactions have resulted in unusually large hypoxic fractions.
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- S Rockwell
- Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510
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Hughes CS, Irvin CG, Rockwell S. Effect of deficiencies in DNA repair on the toxicity of mitomycin C and porfiromycin to CHO cells under aerobic and hypoxic conditions. Cancer Commun (Lond) 1991; 3:29-35. [PMID: 1899798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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A wild type Chinese hamster cell line (AA8) and three repair-deficient sublines of AA8 (EM9, UV4, and UV5) were used to study the nature of the cytotoxic lesions produced by the bioreductive alkylating agents mitomycin C and porfiromycin under aerobic and hypoxic conditions. The sensitivities of the repair-deficient sublines to the drugs varied markedly: EM9 was similar to AA8, whereas UV4 was exquisitely sensitive and UV5 was of intermediate sensitivity. Moreover, both the relative toxicities of the two drugs and the relative toxicities of each drug under aerobic and hypoxic conditions varied for the different cell lines. These data suggest that there are differences in the spectra of toxic lesions produced by mitomycin and porfiromycin and that there are differences in the lesions produced by these drugs under aerobic and hypoxic conditions.
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- C S Hughes
- Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510
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Hughes CS. Case management: everyone wins or everyone loses. Disch Plann Update 1990; 10:3-6. [PMID: 10106083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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Hughes CS, Shen JW, Subjeck JR. Resistance to etoposide induced by three glucose-regulated stresses in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Cancer Res 1989; 49:4452-4. [PMID: 2501025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The induction of glucose-regulated proteins by a variety of specific inducers leads to an increase in resistance to Adriamycin (Shen et al., Proc. Natl., Acad. Sci. USA, 84: 3278, 1987). In this study we examine several additional agents for cross-resistance induced during a glucose-regulated response in an attempt to better define the mechanism through which this phenomenon occurs. When anoxia, calcium ionophore A23187, or 2-deoxyglucose are used, a substantial resistance is obtained against the topoisomerase II-targeted agent, etoposide. Partial resistance is induced against vincristine and actinomycin D. Glucose-regulated protein inducers do not substantially alter cellular response to either bleomycin or radiation. In the case of mitomycin C there is a cellular sensitization with anoxia and 2-deoxyglucose while calcium ionophore A23187 had no effect on survival. This study suggests that the resistance obtained during a glucose-regulated response against etoposide and Adriamycin may involve topoisomerase II.
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- C S Hughes
- Division of Radiation Biology, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263
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Hughes CS, Gaskell RM, Jones RC, Bradbury JM, Jordan FT. Effects of certain stress factors on the re-excretion of infectious laryngotracheitis virus from latently infected carrier birds. Res Vet Sci 1989. [PMID: 2539638 PMCID: PMC7126566 DOI: 10.1016/s0034-5288(18)31158-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Experiments were set up to assess the effects of ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ stresses on the re-excretion of infectious laryngotracheitis (ilt) virus in latently infected chickens recovered from the acute phase of the disease. The stresses were rehousing with the addition of ilt-free contact birds, corticosteroid treatment and the onset of lay. The contact birds were also monitored for transmission of the virus from the carrier birds. Rehousing with unfamiliar birds induced ilt virus shedding in one of five birds and there was evidence of transmission from this bird to its mate. The onset of lay had a significant effect on the overall shedding rates of the carrier birds. Nine of 10 birds shed virus after onset of lay compared with only two in the three-and-a-half weeks before, and there was a highly significant increase (P<0·001) in the overall number of virus isolations during this period. Corticosteroid treatment did not affect virus shedding. These results may explain some of the apparently spontaneous outbreaks of ilt which occur in the field.
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- C S Hughes
- Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Liverpool, Neston, South Wirral
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Hughes CS, Gaskell RM, Jones RC, Bradbury JM, Jordan FT. Effects of certain stress factors on the re-excretion of infectious laryngotracheitis virus from latently infected carrier birds. Res Vet Sci 1989; 46:274-6. [PMID: 2539638 PMCID: PMC7126566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Experiments were set up to assess the effects of 'natural' and 'artificial' stresses on the re-excretion of infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) virus in latently infected chickens recovered from the acute phase of the disease. The stresses were rehousing with the addition of ILT-free contact birds, corticosteroid treatment and the onset of lay. The contact birds were also monitored for transmission of the virus from the carrier birds. Rehousing with unfamiliar birds induced ILT virus shedding in one of five birds and there was evidence of transmission from this bird to its mate. The onset of lay had a significant effect on the overall shedding rates of the carrier birds. Nine of 10 birds shed virus after onset of lay compared with only two in the three-and-a-half weeks before, and there was a highly significant increase (P less than 0.001) in the overall number of virus isolations during this period. Corticosteroid treatment did not affect virus shedding. These results may explain some of the apparently spontaneous outbreaks of ILT which occur in the field.
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- C S Hughes
- Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Liverpool, Neston, South Wirral
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Hughes CS, Repasky EA, Bankert RB, Johnson RJ, Subjeck JR. Effects of hyperthermia on spectrin expression patterns of murine lymphocytes. Radiat Res 1987; 112:116-23. [PMID: 3659292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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In this study the influence of whole-body hyperthermia on the distribution of spectrin in murine lymphocytes isolated from various lymphoid tissues is examined. Lymphocytes normally vary in terms of the pattern of spectrin distribution within the cell. In certain populations of lymphocytes, spectrin is distributed into a dense submembranous aggregate that can be easily identified by immunofluorescence microscopy. In these lymphocytes, little or no spectrin is seen at the plasma membrane region in the rest of the cell. Other lymphocytes have no such cytoplasmic aggregates, and the protein is seen at the region of the plasma membrane. Following whole-body hyperthermia (40.5 degrees C for 90 min) there is a 100% increase in cells exhibiting polar spectrin aggregates in the spleen, while lymphocytes from the thymus show no alteration in the number of cells showing such aggregates. The increase in the percentage of splenic cells that express aggregated spectrin is a result of increases occurring in both T- and B-cell subsets. This increase gradually returns to control levels by 48 h post-heating. During recovery to control levels this phenomenon is resistant to additional changes when a second heat treatment is applied. The effects described above are not observed when the experiments are performed in vitro; therefore, it is likely that the in vivo heat-induced alteration in the splenic lymphocyte population reflects the physiological response of lymphocytes to stimuli during a natural fever. The role that spectrin may play in the modulation of lymphocyte membrane properties is discussed.
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- C S Hughes
- Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263
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Hughes CS, Jones RC, Gaskell RM, Jordan FT, Bradbury JM. Demonstration in live chickens of the carrier state in infectious laryngotracheitis. Res Vet Sci 1987; 42:407-10. [PMID: 3039623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Two separate groups of nine-week-old specific pathogen free cockerels maintained in isolation were infected with a field strain of infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) virus, either by intratracheal or combined intranasal and supraconjunctival inoculation. Birds were monitored for virus shedding from five sites on alternate days during the acute phase and three times weekly until week 17. They were then treated with cyclophosphamide on three consecutive days and thereafter swabbed daily. During the acute phase clinical signs were observed and virus was recovered from ocular and nasal sites for up to six to eight days. Initially after the acute phase no virus could be detected. However, from the seventh week after infection intermittent, apparently spontaneous shedding was detected in four of five birds in each group. There was no clear effect of cyclophosphamide treatment on re-excretion patterns, possibly because of the high levels of virus shedding already occurring. Thus, a carrier state for ILT virus has been demonstrated experimentally in live clinically recovered birds.
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Leib DA, Bradbury JM, Gaskell RM, Hughes CS, Jones RC. Restriction endonuclease patterns of some European and American isolates of avian infectious laryngotracheitis virus. Avian Dis 1986; 30:835-7. [PMID: 3028360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Eleven isolates of infectious laryngotracheitis virus (nine European and two American) were compared by restriction endonuclease analysis of their DNA after radiolabeling with 32P. Digestion with KpnI gave identical cleavage patterns for all the European isolates, but the two American viruses (one field and one vaccine) showed some differences from them and from each other. In the case of the American vaccine strain, however, these differences were only minor. After BamHI digestion, only the American field isolate appeared to be different, whereas with HindIII, all 11 isolates were identical.
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Sciandra JJ, Subjeck JR, Hughes CS. Induction of glucose-regulated proteins during anaerobic exposure and of heat-shock proteins after reoxygenation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1984; 81:4843-7. [PMID: 6589630 PMCID: PMC391587 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.81.15.4843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 172] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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In this report we examine the effects of chronic anaerobic exposure and subsequent reoxygenation on protein synthesis patterns in Chinese hamster ovary cells. It is observed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (isoelectric focusing/NaDodSO4/PAGE) that the transition from an atmospheric environment to an anaerobic state transiently induces the major heat-shock proteins (at 68 and 89 kDa). As the period of anaerobiosis increases, this heat-shock induction disappears and a new set of proteins (at 76 and 97 kDa) is induced. By two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and partial proteolytic mapping, these new proteins, which are induced by anaerobic exposures exceeding 12 hr, are identical to 76 and 97 kDa (p76 and p97, respectively) proteins induced by extended periods of glucose deprivation (greater than 14 hr) when oxygen is present. Furthermore, the induction of these proteins under anoxia occurs in the presence of glucose, and increasing the glucose content of the starting media does not affect the induction. When anaerobic p76 and p97 induced cells are returned to atmospheric oxygen, p76 and p97 are repressed, while the heat-shock proteins are again transiently induced. This work further suggests the importance of deprivation and release environments in controlling the expression of these two stress protein systems. It is suggested that their natural expression may be determined by comparable circumstances.
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Seventeen children with severe pain due to malignant neoplasm were successfully treated with a subcutaneous infusion of morphine sulfate using a syringe pump. Pain relief was adequate in every case without major side effects. The median dosage required was 0.06 mg/kg/hr (range, 0.025 to 1.79 mg/kg/hr). Three patients received the subcutaneous infusion at home. No patient required an intravenous line for pain control.
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Ames MM, Miser JS, Smithson WA, Coccia PF, Hughes CS, Davis DM. Pharmacokinetic study of indicine N-oxide in pediatric cancer patients. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 1982; 10:43-6. [PMID: 7160044 DOI: 10.1007/bf00257237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Pharmacokinetics of the experimental antitumor agent indicine N-oxide were investigated in a group of 23 pediatric cancer patients. Plasma elimination of indicine N-oxide was best described by a two-compartment open model. The mean plasma distribution phase half-life, plasma elimination phase half-life, and plasma clearance were 8 min, 84 min, and 62 ml/min/m2 (2.1 ml/min/kg), respectively. One patient with renal impairment had an abnormally long plasma elimination phase half-life (275 min) and reduced plasma clearance (17 ml/min/m2). Plasma elimination phase half-life values increased and plasma clearance values decreased with increasing age of the pediatric patients. Plasma elimination of indicine N-oxide was more rapid in this group of children than in adults who had previously received the drug.
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