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Mangini V, Rosini E, Caliandro R, Mangiatordi GF, Delre P, Sciancalepore AG, Pollegioni L, Haidukowski M, Mazzorana M, Sumarah MW, Renaud JB, Flaig R, Mulè G, Belviso BD, Loi M. DypB peroxidase for aflatoxin removal: New insights into the toxin degradation process. Chemosphere 2024; 349:140826. [PMID: 38040262 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.140826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2023] [Revised: 11/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/26/2023] [Indexed: 12/03/2023]
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Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) is one of the most potent carcinogens and a widespread food and feed contaminant. As for other toxins, many efforts are devoted to find efficient and environmentally-friendly methods to degrade AFB1, such as enzymatic treatments, thus improving the safety of food and feed products. In this regard, the dye decolorizing peroxidase of type B (DypB) can efficiently degrade AFB1. The molecular mechanism, which is required to drive protein optimization in view of the usage of DypB as a mycotoxin reduction agent in large scale application, is unknown. Here, we focused on the role of four DypB residues in the degradation of AFB1 by alanine-scanning (residues 156, 215, 239 and 246), which were identified from biochemical assays to be kinetically relevant for the degradation. As a result of DypB degradation, AFB1 is converted into four products. Interestingly, the relative abundancy of these products depends on the replaced residues. Molecular dynamics simulations were used to investigate the role of these residues in the binding step between protein and manganese, a metal ion which is expected to be involved in the degradation process. We found that the size of the haem pocket as well as conformational changes in the protein structure could play a role in determining the kinetics of AFB1 removal and, consequently, guide the process towards specific degradation products.
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- V Mangini
- Istituto di Cristallografia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Amendola 122/o, Bari, 70126, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria, Via J. H. Dunant 3, Varese, 21100, Italy
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- Istituto di Cristallografia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Amendola 122/o, Bari, 70126, Italy
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- Istituto di Cristallografia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Amendola 122/o, Bari, 70126, Italy
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- Istituto di Cristallografia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Amendola 122/o, Bari, 70126, Italy
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- Istituto di Cristallografia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Amendola 122/o, Bari, 70126, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria, Via J. H. Dunant 3, Varese, 21100, Italy
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- Istituto di Scienze delle Produzioni Alimentari, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Amendola 122/o, Bari, 70126, Italy
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd., Diamond House, Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK; Research Complex at Harwell, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0FA, UK
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- London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 1391 Sandford Street London, Ontario, Canada, N5V4T3
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- London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 1391 Sandford Street London, Ontario, Canada, N5V4T3
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd., Diamond House, Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK; Research Complex at Harwell, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0FA, UK
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- Istituto di Scienze delle Produzioni Alimentari, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Amendola 122/o, Bari, 70126, Italy.
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- Istituto di Cristallografia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Amendola 122/o, Bari, 70126, Italy.
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- Istituto di Scienze delle Produzioni Alimentari, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Amendola 122/o, Bari, 70126, Italy
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Lethias C, Aubert-Foucher E, Dublet B, Eichenberger D, Font B, Goldschmidt D, Labourdette L, Mazzorana M, van der Rest M. Structure, molecular assembly and tissue distribution of FACIT collagen molecules. Contrib Nephrol 2015; 107:57-63. [PMID: 8004975 DOI: 10.1159/000422961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- C Lethias
- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Lyon, France
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Morito N, Yoh K, Yamagata K, Allard L, Demoncheaux N, Machuca-Gayet I, Georgess D, Mazzorana M, Jurdic P, Bacchetta J, Jankowski V, Schuchardt M, Van Der Giet M, Zidek W, Jankowski J, Egidi MF, Mangione E, Poletti R, Passino C, Caprioli R, Lippi A, Del Torto A, Emdin M, Lin MC, Chan CK, Wu VC, O. Neill J, Healy V, Johns EJ, Lin MC, Wu VC, Beilhack GF, Kotzmann H, Heinze G, Kohl M, Luger A, Schmidt A, Gohel K, Saurin D, Hegde U, Gang S, Rajapurkar M, Cho H, Kim SB, Sonikian M, Giakoumis M, Pani I, Karaitianou A, Trovas G, Hiramitsu T, Yamamoto T, Tominaga Y. HORMONES. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2014. [DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfu163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Allard L, Demoncheaux N, Machuca-Gayet I, Georgess D, Mazzorana M, Jurdic P, Bacchetta J. SFRP CO-12 – Effets de la vitamine D active et du FGF23 sur l’ostéoclaste humain. Arch Pediatr 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/s0929-693x(14)72250-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Breton P, Mazzorana M, Jurdic P, Glehen A, Bouletreau P. O.106 Tissue response to the degradation of resorbable copolymers in orthognathic surgery. J Craniomaxillofac Surg 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/s1010-5182(06)60136-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Bouletreau P, Jurdic P, Mazzorana M, Breton P, Freidel M. [Evaluation of tissue response to resorbable osteosynthesis materials in maxillofacial surgery. Prospective randomized clinical trial of therapeutic strategy]. Rev Stomatol Chir Maxillofac 2005; 106:316-20. [PMID: 16292230 DOI: 10.1016/s0035-1768(05)86051-6] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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- P Bouletreau
- Service de Stomatologie, Chirurgie Maxillo-Faciale et Plastique de la Face, Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud - Hospices Civils de Lyon, 165, chemin du Grand Revoyet, 69495 Pierre-Bénite.
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Battistutta R, Mazzorana M, Sarno S, Kazimierczuk Z, Zanotti G, Pinna LA. Inspecting the pharmacophore of protein kinase CK2 with tetrabromobenzimidazoles. Acta Crystallogr A 2005. [DOI: 10.1107/s010876730508949x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Bernocco S, Finet S, Ebel C, Eichenberger D, Mazzorana M, Farjanel J, Hulmes DJ. Biophysical characterization of the C-propeptide trimer from human procollagen III reveals a tri-lobed structure. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:48930-6. [PMID: 11684689 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m108611200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 11/06/2022] Open
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Procollagen C-propeptide domains direct chain association during intracellular assembly of procollagen molecules. In addition, they control collagen solubility during extracellular proteolytic processing and fibril formation and interact with cell surface receptors and extracellular matrix components involved in feedback inhibition, mineralization, cell growth arrest, and chemotaxis. At present, three-dimensional structural information for the C-propeptides, which would help to understand the underlying molecular mechanisms, is lacking. Here we have carried out a biophysical study of the recombinant C-propeptide trimer from human procollagen III using laser light scattering, analytical ultracentrifugation, and small angle x-ray scattering. The results show that the trimer is an elongated molecule, which by modeling of the x-ray scattering data appears to be cruciform in shape with three large lobes and one minor lobe. We speculate that each of the major lobes corresponds to one of the three component polypeptide chains, which come together in a junction region to connect to the rest of the procollagen molecule.
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- S Bernocco
- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, CNRS UMR 5086, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69367 Lyon cedex 7, France
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Aubert-Foucher E, Goldschmidt D, Jaquinod M, Mazzorana M. Processing in the C-terminal domain of minicollagen XII removes a heparin-binding site. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2001; 286:1131-9. [PMID: 11527417 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5522] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A minicollagen comprising the two C-terminal domains of collagen XII (COL1 and NC1) has been expressed in insect cells and characterized biochemically. An interaction with heparin is demonstrated, which depends on the correct folding of the molecule. After secretion, minicollagen XII is immediately processed to a form lacking heparin binding ability. Processed and unprocessed trimers differ only at the level of the eight or nine C-terminal residues but they reveal different structures as judged from rotary shadowing images. Similar processing is also observed in the medium of transfected human HeLa cells. These data show that a heparin-binding site is present in the C-terminal end of the chicken collagen XII sequence and strongly suggest that proteolytic processing in the NC1 domain can occur in vivo and regulate the interactive properties of collagen XII.
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- E Aubert-Foucher
- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, UMR 5086, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard, 7, Passage du Vercors, Lyon Cedex 07, 69367, France.
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A minicollagen containing the COL1 and NC1 domains of chicken collagen XII has been produced in insect cells. Significant amounts of trimers contain a triple-helical domain in which the cysteines are not involved in inter- but in intrachain bonds. In reducing conditions, providing that the triple-helix is maintained, disulfide exchange between intra- and interchain bonding is observed, suggesting that the triple-helix forms first and that in favorable redox conditions interchain bonding occurs to stabilize the molecule. This hypothesis is verified by in vitro reassociation studies performed in the presence of reducing agents, demonstrating that the formation of interchain disulfide bonds is not a prerequisite to the trimeric association and triple-helical folding of the collagen XII molecule. Shortening the COL1 domain of minicollagen XII to its five C-terminal GXY triplets results in an absence of trimers. This can be explained by the presence of a collagenous domain that is too short to form a stable triple-helix. In contrast, the presence of five additional C-terminal triplets in COL1 allows the formation of triple-helical disulfide-bonded trimers, suggesting that the presence of a triple-helix is essential for the assembly of collagen XII.
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- M Mazzorana
- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, UMR 5086, CNRS-Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, 7, Passage du Vercors, 69367 Lyon, Cedex 07, France
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Mazzorana M, Snellman A, Kivirikko KI, van der Rest M, Pihlajaniemi T. Involvement of prolyl 4-hydroxylase in the assembly of trimeric minicollagen XII. Study in a baculovirus expression system. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:29003-8. [PMID: 8910551 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.46.29003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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: 02/03/2023] Open
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We have shown previously that hydroxylation played a critical role in the trimer assembly and disulfide bonding of the three constituent alpha chains of a minicollagen composed of the extreme C-terminal collagenous (COL1) and noncollagenous (NC1) domains of type XII collagen in HeLa cells (Mazzorana, M., Gruffat, H., Sergeant, A., and van der Rest, M. (1993) J. Biol. Chem. 268, 3029-3032). We have further characterized the involvement of prolyl 4-hydroxylase in the assembly of the three alpha chains to form trimeric disulfide-bonded type XII minicollagen in an insect cell expression system. For this purpose, type XII minicollagen was produced in insect cells from baculovirus vectors, alone or together with wild-type human prolyl 4-hydroxylase or with the human enzyme mutated in the catalytic site of its alpha or beta subunits or with the individual alpha or beta subunits. When type XII minicollagen was produced alone, negligible amounts of disulfide-bonded trimers were found to be produced by the cells. However, coproduction of the collagen with the two subunits of the wild-type human enzyme dramatically increased the amount of disulfide-bonded trimeric type XII minicollagen molecules. In contrast, coproduction of the collagen with alpha subunits that had a mutation completely inactivating the human enzyme failed to enhance the trimer assembly. These results directly show that an active prolyl 4-hydroxylase is required for the assembly of disulfide-bonded trimers of type XII minicollagen.
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- M Mazzorana
- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, IBCP CNRS UPR 412, 7, Passage du Vercors, 69367 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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The fibril-associated-collagens-with-interrupted-triple-helices (FACITs) are devoid of large C-propeptides like those involved in the trimeric assembly of the fibrillar collagens. Under these conditions, the C-terminal non triple-helical domain (NC1) and the adjacent triple-helical domain (COL1) are likely to be responsible for the trimeric assembly of these collagen molecules. Using a recombinant minigene of one of the FACITs, collagen XII, we show that a deletion covering most of the NC1 domain, except the first seven residues containing a cysteine and constituting the main part of the conserved junction between the COL1 and NC1 domains, does not prevent the formation of trimeric disulfide-bonded assembly of truncated alpha chains. These results suggest that if the non triple-helical NC1 domain is involved in the initial events governing the trimeric assembly, it must be through its amino acid residues participating in the junction. Our data confirm also the results obtained in a previous paper (Mazzorana et al.: J. Biol. Chem. 268:3029-3032, 1993) showing that the formation of disulfide bonds is dependent on hydroxylation and suggesting that the folding of the triple helix (or a part of it) precedes the formation of the disulfide bonds.
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- M Mazzorana
- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Proteines, Lyon, France
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Mazzorana M, Gruffat H, Sergeant A, van der Rest M. Mechanisms of collagen trimer formation. Construction and expression of a recombinant minigene in HeLa cells reveals a direct effect of prolyl hydroxylation on chain assembly of type XII collagen. J Biol Chem 1993; 268:3029-32. [PMID: 8428977] [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: 01/30/2023] Open
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Collagen types IX, XII, and XIV are characterized by the presence of a highly conserved region comprising the most C-terminal triple helical domain (COL1, approximately 100 residues/chain) and 2 cysteines separated by 4 amino acid residues at the junction between this COL1 domain and the C-terminal non-triple helical domain (NC1). In order to better understand the functions of this conserved domain, we have constructed a recombinant minigene, comprising the sequence coding for an unrelated signal peptide and for the COL1 and NC1 domains of type XII collagen. This construct was placed under the control of the cytomegalovirus promoter and transfected into HeLa cells. The cells expressed the transfected minigene and the secreted chain, called alpha 1 (mini XII), could be detected by immunotransfer with an anti-peptide antibody recognizing an epitope found in the NC1 domain. Under conditions preventing the hydroxylation of prolyl residues (absence of ascorbate or presence of alpha alpha'-dipyridyl), interchain disulfide bridges did not form, while in the presence of ascorbate, disulfide-bonded (alpha 1 (mini XII))3 molecules were secreted. The collagenous nature and triple helical conformation of the trimeric molecule were ascertained by the differential resistances of the COL1 and NC1 domains to trypsin and collagenase digestions, respectively. Our data demonstrate that the NC1 and COL1 domains of type XII collagen contain the information necessary for trimer formation and that, contrary to the fibrillar collagen types, posttranslational modification of the triple helical domain is essential for assembly and disulfide bonding of the chains.
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- M Mazzorana
- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Passage du Vercors, Lyon, France
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Mazzorana M, Baffet G, Kneip B, Launois B, Guguen-Guillouzo C. Expression of coagulation factor V gene by normal adult human hepatocytes in primary culture. Br J Haematol 1991; 78:229-35. [PMID: 2064962 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1991.tb04421.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 12/30/2022]
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Normal human adult hepatocytes were examined for their ability to synthesize and secrete factor V using primary culture. The culture medium contained both factor V and factor Va as determined by bioassay and activation experiments. Immunoprecipitation of newly synthesized labelled factor V showed the presence of both native factor V (m.w. 330,000) and two fragments of respective molecular weight 300,000 and 265,000. Northern blot analysis revealed the presence of a single 7 kb factor V mRNA in cultured human hepatocytes as in liver biopsies, together with fibrinogen beta and albumin transcripts. Relative levels of factor V, fibrinogen beta and albumin mRNAs differed when the cells cultured, suggesting that expression of the three corresponding genes might in part be independently regulated. Furthermore, addition of glucocorticoids enhanced factor V and fibrinogen beta mRNA levels 1.6- and 5-fold respectively, but did not significantly increase that of albumin. These results provide evidence that human hepatocytes actively participate in the synthesis of plasma factor V and constitute a valuable model to study the common and specific regulations involved in the control of the expression of this gene in human liver.
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- M Mazzorana
- INSERM U49, Unité de Recherches Hépatologiques, Hôpital Pontchaillou, Rennes, France
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The synthesis of coagulation factor V was investigated in isolated rat hepatocytes maintained in long-term primary culture. Two culture conditions were compared. A clotting assay and an immunoprecipitation experiment with rabbit anti rat factor V IgG were used to demonstrate not only the presence of factor V in the cells but also active secretion into the culture medium. Both the inhibition of the clotting reaction in presence of the antibody and absence of thrombin in culture media confirmed the specificity of the clotting assays. Electron microscopic examination located factor V in the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus of hepatocytes in common with other liver specific plasma proteins. Examination of liver tissue sections confirmed the production of factor V in hepatocytes but not in hepatic endothelial cells although it did not exclude a transit pathway of factor V through these cells. Addition of Russell viper venom factor V activating enzyme to the culture medium had no effect on the factor V activity. In contrast, treatment of cell extracts did increase the coagulant activity. This suggests that hepatocytes contained principally an unactivated form or procofactor, whereas factor V present into the culture medium was mainly in an activated form. These data provide evidence for synthesis and secretion of an hepatocytic factor V.
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- M Mazzorana
- INSERM - U 49, Hôpital de Pontchaillou, Rennes, France
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In a previous paper, we demonstrated that deep hypothermia in dogs provokes a release of a heparin-like factor. In the present study, we investigated some properties of this anticoagulant activity and compared it with exogenous heparin activity. The endogenous anticoagulant inhibited factors IIa and Xa; it was hydrolysed by heparinase and was AT III dependent. However, it differed from heparin in so far as it was adsorbed on cation exchange gel at neutral pH, its inhibition was decreased in the presence of neuraminidase, and it could not be neutralized with Polybrene or protamine. A release of heparan sulphate is suggested but remains to be demonstrated.
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- B Cornillon
- INSERM Unit 37, Cardiovascular Research and Organ Transplantation, Bron, France
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Cornillon B, Paul J, Mazzorana M, Belleville J. Rat coagulation factor V purification and production of the monospecific antiserum. Comp Biochem Physiol B 1986; 83:397-401. [PMID: 3956160 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(86)90387-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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An original method was applied to purify rat factor V. The final preparation had a sp. act. of 45 U/ml for a 2500-fold purification with a yield of 43%. The final product is partially activated since it is 4.7-fold activable by RVV-VAE vs 6.3 in plasma. It can explain the presence of some of the four slightly stained additional bands found in SDS-electrophoresis. Finally, results of the purification suggest that rat factor V is a 338,000 single chain glycoprotein with a strong molecular asymmetry. A factor V deficient fraction was produced and used to adsorb an anti-factor V antiserum. This adsorbed antiserum was found monospecific against purified rat factor V.
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Immunolocalization of the factor V was performed in adult and fetal rat liver by means of an indirect peroxidase labelling. This could be done owing to the production in our laboratory of a mono-specific antiserum anti rat factor V. In all the cases (perfused and non-perfused adult liver and fetal one) the observation of the sections has revealed an intense circular or granular labelling into all the hepatocytes whatever was their localization in the hepatic lobule. Hepatic endothelial cells seemed to be negative for factor V and this aspect of our results was discussed.
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Mazzorana M, Garrone R, Martel N, Yamasaki H. Specific binding and biological effects of tumor promoting phorbol esters on sponges. Biol Cell 1985; 52:27-34. [PMID: 6241484 DOI: 10.1111/j.1768-322x.1985.tb00322.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Sponges grown in the presence of 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate (TPA) show deep alterations of their structure and development. Their aquiferous system (flagellated cells and canals) is largely altered and the tissues show an unusually high cell density. This focalized effect of TPA on the aquiferous system seems specific and is reversible at low concentrations (100 ng/ml). A toxic, non-specific effect is also noted, particularly at high concentrations (5000 ng/ml). Using 3H-phorbol-12, 13-dibutyrate (3H-PDBu), we demonstrate a class of specific binding sites for phorbol esters in the homogenates of sponges. These binding sites have high affinity (Kd = 26.0 nM) for PDBu and at saturation about 20 pmoles of 3H-PDBu is bound per mg protein of sponge homogenates. The binding of 3H-PDBu was inhibited by other phorbol esters and their congeners, and there was a good correlation between their potency in binding inhibition and their tumor promoting activity. It is concluded that sponges have a class of specific saturable and high affinity receptors for phorbol esters and that there is a very high conservation of these receptors during evolution. Such specific binding may be responsible for subsequent biological effect of TPA on sponges.
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Simpson TL, Garrone R, Mazzorana M. Interaction of germanium (Ge) with biosilicification in the freshwater sponge Ephydatia mülleri: evidence of localized membrane domains in the silicalemma. J Ultrastruct Res 1983; 85:159-74. [PMID: 6325724 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5320(83)90104-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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In the presence of germanium (Ge) the needle-shaped silica spicules of the freshwater sponge Ephydatia m ulleri are very short and thin and possess bulbs with large spines. SEM-coupled X-ray analyses confirm the incorporation of Ge into the silica. A small number of bulbs are susceptible to erosion by HNO3 and hypochlorite and although the chemical basis of such erosion is presently unknown it suggests the presence of an organic matrix within the bulbs and/or an incomplete polymerization of the silica. Addition of Ge to control media in which silicification is newly initiated increases the incidence of erosion and results in centrally located eroded areas of the silica and discontinuities in its deposition. Removal of Ge from such newly forming structures results in a partial recovery of normal morphology (spine development and thickening of the silica) but only in the central region surrounding the bulbs. Both results establish the presence of a central, active region for silicification and further support the view that there is a distal spreading, away from this center, of transported forms of silica. Secondary centers may also be present. The newly assembled organic core of control structures is associated with tubular elements possibly derived from the surrounding membrane. In such newly silicifying structures the spicule tips contain oriented material in the form of "rays." Both of these new observations increase the likelihood of the presence of an organic matrix within the silica.
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Mazzorana M, Garrone R. Reversible cell scattering in developing sponges induced by penicillamine. J Submicrosc Cytol 1983; 15:695-703. [PMID: 6876224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The development and substratum adhesion of fresh-water sponges were reversibly altered by penicillamine concentrations of 5 x 10(-3) M to 10(-2) M. Development was delayed and most of the resulting individuals were unable to attach to a substratum. In fixed sponges, the classical lacunose structure was replaced by a dense cellular tissue, imperfectly limited by a discontinuous epithelium. Numerous scattered cells (epithelial and amoeboid) were visible around each sponge. They were either flattened against the glass or in migration. These modifications are interpreted as the result of a penicillamine-induced abnormal synthesis of the collagenous basal layer which normally attaches the whole sponge to its substratum. Due to the loose sponge cell junctions, basal and internal cells could then disaggregate and attach individually to the substratum. Penicillamine treatment could thus be a suitable means of obtaining normal isolated sponge cells and even sponge cell cultures, since classical dissociation of sponge tissue with EDTA gives only rounded cells that are unable to migrate.
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Lethias C, Garrone R, Mazzorana M. Fine structures of sponge cell membranes: comparative study with freeze-fracture and conventional thin section methods. Tissue Cell 1983; 15:523-35. [PMID: 6636118 DOI: 10.1016/0040-8166(83)90004-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
Abstract
Freeze-fracture replicas of sponge cell membranes revealed in general a low density of intramembranous particles, with the exceptions of the membrane (silicalemma) surrounding the siliceous spicules in Ephydatia and the membranes of spherulous cells in Chondrosia. In addition, several types of particle arrangements were observed. A classical necklace is present at the base of the choanocyte flagellum. Rosettes of particles are particularly obvious in the apical membranes of choanocytes, where they are associated with the fuzzy coat covering these cells. Parallel ridges of particles were observed along the microvilli of the choanocyte collar, at sites of insertion of connecting filaments. Rows of particles were observed in the plasma membrane of pinacocytes in Ephydatia where they are located on areas deformed by protruding fibrillar inclusions. Pinacocyte plasma membranes in this species also can contain accumulations of particles which are likely related to desmosomes. Single rows of aligned particles and double rows of staggered particles (sometimes organized in large plates) in addition to rhombic particle arrays were encountered on replicas of marine sponge cell membranes. No classical arrangements corresponding to gap junctions, tight junctions or septate desmosomes were observed. The significance of these data is analysed.
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