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Theis T, Johal AS, Kabat M, Basak S, Schachner M. Enhanced Neuronal Survival and Neurite Outgrowth Triggered by Novel Small Organic Compounds Mimicking the LewisX Glycan. Mol Neurobiol 2018; 55:8203-8215. [PMID: 29520715 PMCID: PMC6314473 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-018-0953-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2017] [Accepted: 02/05/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Glycosylation fine-tunes signal transduction of adhesion molecules during neural development and supports synaptic plasticity and repair after injury in the adult nervous system. One abundantly expressed neural glycan is LewisX (LeX). Although it is known that its expression starts at the formation of the neural tube during the second embryonic week in the mouse and peaks during the first postnatal week, its functional relevance is only rudimentarily understood. To gain better insights into the functions of this glycan, we identified small organic compounds that mimic structurally and functionally this glycan glycosidically linked to several neural adhesion molecules. Mimetic compounds were identified by competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using the LeX-specific monoclonal antibodies L5 and SSEA-1 for screening a library of small organic molecules. In this assay, antibody binding to substrate-coated LeX glycomimetic peptide is measured in the presence of compounds, allowing identification of molecules that inhibit antibody binding and thereby mimic LeX. Gossypol, orlistat, ursolic acid, folic acid, and tosufloxacin inhibited antibody binding in a concentration-dependent manner. With the aim to functionally characterize the molecular consequences of the compounds' actions, we here present evidence that, at nM concentrations, the mimetic compounds enhance neurite outgrowth and promote neuronal survival of cultured mouse cerebellar granule cells via, notably, distinct signal transduction pathways. These findings raise hopes that these LeX mimetics will be powerful tools for further studying the functions of LeX and its effects in acute and chronic nervous system disease models. It is worth mentioning in this context that the LeX compounds investigated in the present study have been clinically approved for different therapies.
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- Thomas Theis
- Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience and Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08554, USA
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- Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience and Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08554, USA
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- Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience and Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08554, USA
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- Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience and Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08554, USA
- Developmental Sciences-Safety Assessment, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA, 94080-4990, USA
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- Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience and Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08554, USA.
- Center for Neuroscience, Shantou University Medical College, 22 Xin Ling Road, Shantou, Guangdong, 515041, China.
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Dissanayake S, Shahin A. Induction of interferon-gamma by Taenia crassiceps glycans and Lewis sugars in naive BALB/c spleen and peritoneal exudate cells. Mol Immunol 2006; 44:1623-30. [PMID: 17034862 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2006.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2006] [Accepted: 08/11/2006] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Helminth parasites are known to alter host immune responses and the responsible molecules are a potential source of biological immunoadjuvants. Previously, we have reported strong Th-2 type immunomodulatory properties of Taenia crassiceps glycans. In this study, we report interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) stimulatory activity of fractionated Taenia glycans and Lewis sugars with comparable glycan composition. Our data show that Taenia glycans and Lewis X pentasaccharide are potent stimulators of the Th-1 type cytokine IFN-gamma. We postulate that the terminal beta-(1-4)-galactose residue in Lewis X is associated with IFN-gamma stimulation from naive BALB/c mouse spleen and peritoneal exudate cells. Antibodies to toll-like receptors (TLRs) inhibited the Lewis X-induced IFN-gamma secretion. Lewis X up-regulated the expression of NF-kappaB p65 from naive spleen cells and IFN-gamma transcription in peritoneal exudate cells. These data demonstrate the ability of Lewis type helminth glycans to modulate host responses in a Th-1 direction via NF-kappaB p65, IFN-gamma and macrophage TLRs.
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- Senarath Dissanayake
- Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, U.A.E. University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
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Pochechueva TV, Ushakova NA, Preobrazhenskaya ME, Nifantiev NE, Tsvetkov YE, Sablina MA, Tuzikov AB, Bird MI, Rieben R, Bovin NV. P-selectin blocking potency of multimeric tyrosine sulfates in vitro and in vivo. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2003; 13:1709-12. [PMID: 12729647 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-894x(03)00234-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [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: 10/27/2022]
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P-selectin blocking potency was investigated using synthetic monomeric and polymeric anionic compounds containing sulfate groups such as O-sulfotyrosine (sTyr) and/or sulfated Lewis structures. A non-carbohydrate-containing polyacrylamide conjugate sTyr-PAA (80% mol of sTyr) was a remarkably potent inhibitor of P-selectin binding in vitro, having an IC(50) value of 6 ng/mL (equivalent to 10 nM calculated on the basis of sTyr residues or 0.1 nM calculated by the mass of the macromolecule). The inhibitory effect of sTyr-PAA (80%) towards P-selectin is significantly greater than that of fucoidan (IC(50), 100 ng/mL). However, sTyr-PAA (80%) was less effective than fucoidan at reducing neutrophil extravasation in an in vivo rat model of peritonitis.
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- Tatyana V Pochechueva
- Shemyakin & Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Miklukho-Maklaya 16/10, 117997 Moscow, Russia
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Sakagami M, Horie K, Higashi K, Yamada H, Hamana H. Syntheses and evaluation of biantennary oligosaccharide ligands mimicking sialyl Lewis X. Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo) 1999; 47:1237-45. [PMID: 10517006 DOI: 10.1248/cpb.47.1237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Sialyl Lewis X (1) is known to be a ligand of the cell adhesion molecule E-selectin. We have synthesized several biantennary glycoside-terminated ligands mimicking sialyl Lewis X (1), and evaluated their binding activity to E-selectin using HL-60 cells expressing sialyl Lewis X epitope and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). These compounds were found to possess moderate binding activities to E-selectin. Among them, di-fucoside analog (8) which has no sialic acid carboxylate group was more active than 2, which had both the sialyl-galactose residue and the fucose residue (IC50, 8: 4.7 mM, 2: 11.7 mM). Furthermore, in the rat pleuritic model in vivo induced by carrageenin, 8 was found to reduce neutrophil infiltration at inflammatory lesions.
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- M Sakagami
- Drug Delivery System Institute, Ltd., Chiba, Japan
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Previously, we found that asialo-lactosamine sequences served as receptors for enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) binding to Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. In the present report, we have extended these earlier results by examining the ability of lactosamine- or fucosylated lactosamine-bovine serum albumin (BSA) glycoconjugates to inhibit EPEC, strain E2348/69, binding to HEp-2 cells. We found that, consistent with our previous findings with CHO cells, N-acetyllactosamine-BSA was the most effective inhibitor of EPEC localized adherence to HEp-2 cells, with Lewis X-BSA being the next best inhibitor. Further investigation revealed that coincubating EPEC E2348/69 with these BSA glycoconjugates alone caused a decrease in the expression of the bundle-forming pilus structural subunit (BfpA) and intimin by the bacteria. BfpA and intimin expression were reduced to the greatest extent by N-acetyllactosamine-BSA and Lewis X-BSA, respectively. These results suggest that the glycoconjugate inhibition of EPEC binding to HEp-2 cells might be achieved, wholly or in part, by an active mechanism that is distinct from simple competitive antagonism of receptor-adhesin interactions.
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- R P Vanmaele
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H7, Canada
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Dvorák P, Hampl A, Jirmanová L, Pacholíková J, Kusakabe M. Embryoglycan ectodomains regulate biological activity of FGF-2 to embryonic stem cells. J Cell Sci 1998; 111 ( Pt 19):2945-52. [PMID: 9730986 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.111.19.2945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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: 12/24/2022] Open
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Basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) functions as a natural inducer of mesoderm, regulator of cell differentiation and autocrine modulator of cell growth and transformation. The FGF-2 signals are transduced through receptors with intrinsic protein tyrosine kinase activity. However, receptor binding and activation is governed by extracellular matrix, cell surface or soluble proteoglycans. This paper focuses on the role of proteoglycans synthesized by embryonic cells, embryoglycans, in FGF-2 signaling via FGF receptor-1 (FGFR-1). We found that embryoglycan ectodomain Lewis X, analog of developmentally regulated embryonic cell surface epitope TEC 1, promotes oligomerization of FGF-2 in the cell free chemical crosslinking. In vitro assays show that a large molar excess of extracellular Lewis X does not inhibit binding of FGF-2 to embryonic stem (ES) cells, but prevents the mitogenic effect of FGF-2. Western blot analysis of ES cells revealed the presence of abundant 52 kDa and trace amounts of 67 and 125 kDa isoforms of FGFR-1. However, none of these isoforms undergo any detectable changes in tyrosine phosphorylation under the conditions that modulate the mitogenic effect of FGF-2. Rather, a primary substrate of all receptor tyrosine kinases, phospholipase C gamma (PLC gamma), is activated by both FGF-2 and Lewis X. The combination, FGF-2 plus Lewis X, leads to weak inhibition, when compared with the effects of FGF-2 and Lewis X, respectively. In accordance, the level of phosphorylation of non-receptor tyrosine kinase c-Src is reduced in a reversed pattern to PLC(gamma). Furthermore, in this particular cell type we show the presence of activated forms of extracellular signal-related kinase (ERK) in all nontreated and treated cells. These findings demonstrate that embryoglycan ectodomains may act as negative regulators of FGF-2-induced ES cell proliferation, most likely through the FGFR-1-independent signaling pathway.
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- P Dvorák
- Laboratory of Molecular Embryology, Mendel University Brno, Czech Republic.
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Meyer zum Gottesberge AM, Mai JK. Glycerol administration modulates the pattern of the 3-fucosyl-N-acetyl-lactosamine (CD15) epitope in the adult guinea pig inner ear. ORL J Otorhinolaryngol Relat Spec 1997; 59:127-30. [PMID: 9186965 DOI: 10.1159/000276924] [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: 02/04/2023]
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The effect of glycerol administration on the distribution pattern of the CD15 (3-fucosyl-N-acetyl-lactosamine) epitope has been studied immunohistochemically in hydropic and non-hydropic ears of adult guinea pigs from 80 min to 5 h after treatment with 2 g/kg glycerol. Glycerol administration characteristically modulated the immunoreactivity of the CD15 epitope in the endolymphatic sac and the tectorial membrane (TM) and revealed the CD15 epitope in the otoconia of the saccule, the stereocilia and the supporting cells of the ampullae. Our results suggest that glycerol interacts with glycoconjugates of the TM and otoconia, causing changes in their density and possibly the hydration state. As a consequence, the transduction process may be affected.
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Ohmoto H, Nakamura K, Inoue T, Kondo N, Inoue Y, Yoshino K, Kondo H, Ishida H, Kiso M, Hasegawa A. Studies on selectin blocker. 1. Structure-activity relationships of sialyl Lewis X analogs. J Med Chem 1996; 39:1339-43. [PMID: 8632441 DOI: 10.1021/jm9506478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [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: 02/01/2023]
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As part of our studies of selectin blockers, we prepared 1-deoxy-3'-O-sulfo LeX analogs (1-3), 1-deoxy-3'-O-phosphono LeX analogs (4), and 1-deoxy sLeX analogs (5-7), and examined their inhibitory activities against natural ligand (sLeX) binding to E-selectin, P-selectin, and L-selectin. The 1-deoxy sLeX 5 was up to 20 times more potent an inhibitor than the sLeX tetrasaccharide toward P- and L-selectin binding. This indicates that the modification of the 1 or 2 position of sLeX is useful in the design of a more potent selectin blocker.
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- H Ohmoto
- Department of Biology, Institute of Cancer Research Laboratories, Osaka, Japan
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The objective of this study was to assess the effect of leukotriene C4 (LTC4) on the flux of rolling leukocytes, leukocyte rolling velocity, and leukocyte adhesion in postcapillary venules in vivo and to study the underlying molecular mechanisms involved. LTC4 (20 nmol/L) induced a rapid and significant increase in leukocyte rolling flux that was inhibitable by an anti-P-selectin antibody and soluble sialyl Lewis(x) (sLe(x)). LTC4 also induced a significant reduction in leukocyte rolling velocity, an event that was independent of P-selectin but entirely dependent on sLe(x). This LTC4-induced reduction in leukocyte rolling velocity was independent of any hemodynamic alterations. Another P-selectin effector, histamine, did not affect leukocyte rolling velocity even at > 5000 times the concentration of LTC4. Treatment with an anti-L-selectin antibody had no effect on the LTC4-induced increase in leukocyte rolling or reduction in rolling velocity. Inhibition of LTC4 bioconversion to LTD4 by pretreatment with L-serine (100 mumol/L) prevented the LTC4-induced increase in leukocyte rolling flux and the LTC4-induced reduction in leukocyte rolling velocity. A subtle, yet significant, increase in leukocyte adhesion was also observed with LTC4. Pretreatment with a platelet-activating factor receptor antagonist returned the LTC4-induced leukocyte rolling velocity to baseline levels. The addition of a very low concentration of platelet-activating factor (1 nmol/L) induced significant leukocyte adhesion in the presence of LTC4 but not histamine.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- S Kanwar
- Immunology Research Group, University of Calgary, Canada
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Lefer DJ, Flynn DM, Phillips ML, Ratcliffe M, Buda AJ. A novel sialyl LewisX analog attenuates neutrophil accumulation and myocardial necrosis after ischemia and reperfusion. Circulation 1994; 90:2390-401. [PMID: 7525107 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.90.5.2390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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BACKGROUND Polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) have been shown to mediate coronary vascular and myocardial tissue injury after coronary artery ischemia and reperfusion. Previous studies using specific monoclonal antibodies directed against P-selectin and L-selectin have demonstrated the involvement of the selectin family of glycoproteins in the early phase of PMN-induced myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury. We examined the effects of a novel oligosaccharide analog of sialyl LewisX (SLeX), which blocks both P-selectin and E-selectin in an acute canine model of myocardial ischemia and reperfusion. METHODS AND RESULTS Anesthetized, open-chest dogs were subjected to 1.5 hours of left circumflex coronary artery (LCx) occlusion followed by 4.5 hours of reperfusion and randomly received the SLeX analog CY-1503 (5 mg/kg IV), the nonfucosylated analog of CY-1503, SLN (5 mg/kg IV), or saline 5 minutes before reperfusion. The investigators were blinded to the treatment until all the data analysis was completed. All three groups of dogs exhibited similar and severe reductions in transmural myocardial blood flow in the LCx region as well as pronounced myocardial contractile dysfunction during occlusion, suggesting comparable degrees of myocardial ischemia. After reperfusion, dogs receiving saline (n = 6) displayed an enhanced degree of myocardial injury that was evidenced by a dramatic elevation in plasma creatine kinase (CK) activity, PMN accumulation, and myocardial necrosis. Plasma CK activity increased from 1.9 +/- 0.5 IU/microgram protein at baseline to 73.0 +/- 11.0 IU/micrograms protein (P < .001) at 4.5 hours of reperfusion and myocardial PMN accumulation, as measured by cardiac myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity, and was significantly enhanced (P < .01) within the necrotic zone compared with the nonischemic zone (4.3 +/- 0.6 versus 0.7 +/- 0.1 U/100 mg tissue). After 4.5 hours of reperfusion, 36% of the myocardium within the ischemic zone and 17% of the left ventricle became necrotic in the dogs receiving saline. Treatment with CY-1503 (n = 6) significantly (P < .05) blunted plasma CK activity by more than 50% throughout the reperfusion period, reduced necrotic zone PMN accumulation by 63% (P < .05), and reduced myocardial necrosis in the area at risk by 65% (P < .01) and by 72% within the left ventricle (P < .01). In contrast, administration of the nonfucosylated analog of CY-1503, SLN (n = 6), failed to exert any detectable cardioprotective effects after myocardial ischemia and reperfusion. CONCLUSIONS Our results provide strong evidence that treatment with a unique carbohydrate analog of SLeX, CY-1503, significantly reduces the degree of myocardial injury associated with coronary artery ischemia and reperfusion. The profound cardioprotection appears to be related to a reduction in PMN accumulation within the ischemic-reperfused myocardium. Additional studies investigating more-prolonged periods of reperfusion are required to determine whether CY-1503 treatment merely delays the onset or actually reduces the full extent of myocardial necrosis after ischemia and reperfusion.
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- D J Lefer
- Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112
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Buerke M, Weyrich AS, Zheng Z, Gaeta FC, Forrest MJ, Lefer AM. Sialyl Lewisx-containing oligosaccharide attenuates myocardial reperfusion injury in cats. J Clin Invest 1994; 93:1140-8. [PMID: 7907602 PMCID: PMC294061 DOI: 10.1172/jci117066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [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: 01/27/2023] Open
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Neutrophil (PMN) adhesion to the vascular endothelium is an important mechanism of myocardial reperfusion injury. The adhesion process is initially mediated by selectins (e.g., P- and L-selectin), and monoclonal antibodies directed against these adhesion molecules exert cardioprotective activity in ischemia/reperfusion models. The counterreceptors for these selectins are thought to be carbohydrate-containing moieties. In this connection, we studied the effect of a soluble sialyl Lewisx-containing oligosaccharide (SLex-OS) on PMN-endothelial interactions in a feline model of myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (MI/R). SLex-OS (10 mg/kg), administered 10 min before R, significantly reduced myocardial necrosis compared with its vehicle 270 min after reperfusion (6 +/- 1% vs. 35 +/- 4% of area at risk, P < 0.01). The cardioprotection was confirmed by significantly lower plasma creatine kinase activities in SLex-OS vs. vehicle-treated cats (P < 0.01). Cardiac contractility (dP/dt max) of cats receiving SLex-OS was significantly preserved after 270 min of R (97 +/- 2% vs. 78 +/- 5% of initial, P < 0.01). Furthermore, endothelium-dependent relaxation to acetylcholine in coronary artery rings isolated from MI/R cats treated with SLex-OS was significantly preserved (73 +/- 7% vs. 22 +/- 6% vasorelaxation, P < 0.01). In vitro PMN adherence to coronary vascular endothelium after 270 min of R was significantly attenuated in the SLex-OS-treated group compared with the vehicle group (14 +/- 5 vs. 91 +/- 12 PMN/mm2, P < 0.01). Our results indicate that a SLex-OS is cardioprotective and preserves coronary endothelial function after MI/R, indicating an important role of sialyl Lewisx in PMN accumulation, endothelial dysfunction, and myocardial injury in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion.
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- M Buerke
- Department of Physiology, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
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Neutrophil recruitment into tissues is a multistep process involving sequential engagement of adhesion molecules, including selectins (E,P,L), which are reactive with oligosaccharides, and the family of beta 2 integrins which are reactive with endothelial intercellular adhesion molecules. These processes result in the initial rolling of leukocytes along the endothelial surfaces, followed by the firm attachment of leukocytes to the endothelium. The intravenous infusion of cobra venom factor into rats results in acute lung injury that is neutrophil-dependent, oxygen radical mediated and P-selectin-dependent. Here we report that infusion of sialyl-Lewis X, a ligand for P-selectin, dramatically reduced lung injury and diminished the tissue accumulation of neutrophils, whereas irrelevant oligosaccharides had no such effects. These results suggest that sialyl-Lewis X carbohydrates may be used as a new strategy for anti-inflammatory therapy.
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- M S Mulligan
- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0602
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