Calcium ions and cell fusion. Effects of chemical fusogens on the permeability of erythrocytes to calcium and other ions.
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SUBMITTER: Blow AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1161337 | biostudies-other | 1979 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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Project description:In this data article, we described the detailed synthetic procedure and the experimental data for the synthesis of a red-fluorescent probe for calcium ions (Ca2+) with improved water solubility. This Ca2+ red-fluorescent probe CaTM-3 AM could be applied to fluorescence imaging of physiological Ca2+ concentration changes in not only live cells, but also brain slices, with high cell-membrane permeability leading to bright fluorescence in biosamples. The data provided herein are in association with the research article "The Development of Practical Red Fluorescent Probe for Cytoplasmic Calcium Ions with Greatly Improved Cell-membrane Permeability" in Cell Calcium (Hirabayashi et al., 2016) [1].
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| S-EPMC1163791 | biostudies-other
Project description:Carriage of drugs by red blood cells (RBCs) modulates pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and immunogenicity. However, optimal targets for attaching therapeutics to human RBCs and adverse effects have not been studied. We engineered nonhuman-primate single-chain antibody fragments (scFvs) directed to human RBCs and fused scFvs with human thrombomodulin (hTM) as a representative biotherapeutic cargo (hTM-scFv). Binding fusions to RBCs on band 3/glycophorin A (GPA; Wright b [Wrb] epitope) and RhCE (Rh17/Hr0 epitope) similarly endowed RBCs with hTM activity, but differed in their effects on RBC physiology. scFv and hTM-scFv targeted to band 3/GPA increased membrane rigidity and sensitized RBCs to hemolysis induced by mechanical stress, while reducing sensitivity to hypo-osmotic hemolysis. Similar properties were seen for other ligands bound to GPA and band 3 on human and murine RBCs. In contrast, binding of scFv or hTM-scFv to RhCE did not alter deformability or sensitivity to mechanical and osmotic stress at similar copy numbers bound per RBCs. Contrasting responses were also seen for immunoglobulin G antibodies against band 3, GPA, and RhCE. RBC-bound hTM-scFv generated activated protein C (APC) in the presence of thrombin, but RhCE-targeted hTM-scFv demonstrated greater APC generation per bound copy. Both Wrb- and RhCE-targeted fusion proteins inhibited fibrin deposition induced by tumor necrosis factor-? in an endothelialized microfluidic model using human whole blood. RhCE-bound hTM-scFv more effectively reduced platelet and leukocyte adhesion, whereas anti-Wrb scFv appeared to promote platelet adhesion. These data provide a translational framework for the development of engineered affinity ligands to safely couple therapeutics to human RBCs.
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Project description:1. Rat erythrocytes were fused by incubation with benzyl alcohol and Ca2+. 2. Cell fusion was inhibited by EGTA, N-ethylmaleimide, tetrathionate, iodoacetamide, cystamine, Tos-Lys-CH2Cl, and to a lesser extent by Tos-Phe-CH2Cl. Phenylmethanesulphonyl fluoride, Tos-Arg-OMe and histamine did not inhibit cell fusion. 3. Gel electrophoresis of membrane proteins from "ghosts" of the erythrocytes treated with benzyl alcohol showed that a high-molecular-weight polymer was present: this was consistent with the entry into the cells of Ca2+ and the activation of a transglutaminase enzyme. 4. In the treated cells the proteins corresponding to bands 2 and 3 in human erythrocytes were decreased, and a polypeptide with a slightly greater mobility than band 3 was produced. 5. These changes were inhibited by EGTA, N-ethylmaleimide, tetrathionate, iodoacetamide, cystamine, and Tos-Lys-CH2Cl, but not by phenylmethanesulphonyl fluoride, Tos-Arg-OMe, or histamine. 6. The intramembraneous particles of the P-fracture face of cells treated with benzyl alcohol to induce fusion were decreased in number and were susceptible to cold-induced aggregation; both of these phenomena were markedly inhibited to EGTA, and partially inhibited by Tos-Lys-CH2Cl and N-ethylmaleimide. 7. These several observations indicate that a Ca2+-activated thiol-proteinase, which acts to degrade membrane proteins and to give freedom of lateral movement to intramembranous particles, may be essential feature of membrane fusion in this system. 8. It is suggested that this proteinase may act to degrade spectrin-binding proteins that attach band-3 protein to the erythrocyte cytoskeleton.
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Project description:1. When the ionophore A23187 and Ca2+ were added to normal human erythrocytes, the incorporation of 32P into phosphatidate was enhanced within 1 min, but there was only slight labelling of other phospholipids. 2. Labelling of phosphatidate in these cells did not continue to increase after about 20min at 37 degrees C; by this time, radioactivity in phosphatidate was about ten times higher inionophore A23187-treated cells than in controls. A net synthesis of phosphatidate was measured in response to the increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentration; the content of this phospholipid in the cell was increased by approximately 50%. 3. In the presence of 2.5 mM-Ca2+ a maximum effect was seen with about 0.5 mug of ionophore/ml. 4. The concentration of Ca2+ giving half-maximal labelling of phosphatidate in the presence of 10 mug of ionophore A23187/ml was about 10 muM. 5. A rapid decrease of ATP content in the cell occurred in ionophore-treated cells. 6. Labelling of phosphatidate appeared to be secondary to the production of 1,2-diacylglycerol in the cells; accumulation of 1,2-diacylglycerol was only seen after about 15 min. After 60 min, the 1,2-diacylglycerol content of the cells was five to seven times that of untreated control cells. 7. The change in the shape of erythrocytes treated with Ca2+ and ionophore appeared to be related to accumulation of 1,2-diacylglycerol. 8. The source of 1,2-diacylglycerol has not been definitely identified, but its fatty acid compositon was similar to that of phosphatidylcholine. However, it has an unusually high content of hexadecenoic acid, a fatty acid not common in the major erythrocyte phospholipids. 9. Accumulation of 1,2-diacyglycerol also occurred in energy-starved cells, even in the absence of calcium; in this case it appeared to be produced by phosphatidate breakdown.
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Project description:1. The cholesterol content of hen erythrocytes was modified by treating the cells with phospholipid liposomes. 2. Depletion of cellular cholesterol, by using liposomes of dipalmitoylglycerophosphocholine or phosphatidylcholine from hen erythrocytes, had no effect on the susceptibility of the cells to fusion induced by oleoylglycerol, but markedly decreased fusion induced by Sendai virus. 3. By contrast, enrichment of cellular cholesterol by using liposomes of dipalmitoylglycerophosphocholine and cholesterol increased cell fusion induced by oleoylglycerol, poly(ethylene glycol) and Sendai virus. 4. Virus-induced cell fusion of guinea-pig erythrocytes, which were enriched in cholesterol by feeding a cholesterol-rich diet to the animals, was also enhanced. 5. Hen erythrocytes that were treated with liposomes prepared from egg phosphatidylcholine contained increased quantities of phospholipid phosphorus and fused readily on incubation with retinol, independently of their cholesterol content. 6. It is suggested that cholesterol may enhance cell fusion by acting to facilitate a phase separation of protein-free areas of lipid bilayer, which subsequently provide the sites for cell fusion.
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