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1.
J Biochem Biophys Methods ; 69(1-2): 15-24, 2006 Nov 30.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16678273

ABSTRACT

For the study of the derivatization behavior of aliphatic C1-C10 aldehydes with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH) in a heating block a gradient elution HPLC method for separation and determination by UV detection at 360 nm was applied. The influence of time, temperature, excess of reagent and stirring onto the reaction yields were examined for conducting the reaction in a thermostated heating block. First, the derivatization procedure had been screened by experiments according to a complete factorial design in order to evaluate the statistically significant variables. Those parameters were used to establish the optimum conditions for the reaction by means of a Box-Behnken design.


Subject(s)
Aldehydes/chemistry , Aldehydes/analysis , Aldehydes/isolation & purification , Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid , Food Analysis , Hot Temperature , Indicators and Reagents , Phenylhydrazines , Solanum tuberosum/chemistry , Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
2.
J Biochem Biophys Methods ; 69(1-2): 3-14, 2006 Nov 30.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16563514

ABSTRACT

In the present study, a derivatization method for the determination of acidic herbicides has been investigated. This procedure involves the methylation with the quaternary ammonium salt trimethylanilinium hydroxide (TMAH) directly in the gas chromatographic auto-sampler vial for analysis by gas chromatography combined with mass spectrometry. The derivatization reaction has been screened for influential factors and statistically significant parameters. The identified factors, reaction time, temperature and hold-up time were optimized by a complete factorial response surface design and optimal reaction conditions were generated. Finally, the optimized methylation procedure was compared to different alkylation methods and obtained results demonstrated the applicability of derivatization with trimethylanilinium hydroxide. Acidic herbicides used in the study consist of several families of compounds like derivatives of acetic acid (2,4-D and 2,4,5-T), butanoic acid (MCPB), benzoic acid (chloramben, dicamba), phenol (dinoseb and dinoterb), propanoic acid (mecoprop) and other miscellaneous acids such as pyridinecarboxlyic acid (picloram). A reliably working, rapid method for the preparation of methyl compounds is generated with respect to automation for routine analysis.


Subject(s)
Herbicides/chemistry , Diazomethane , Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry , Herbicides/analysis , Herbicides/isolation & purification , Hydrogen-Ion Concentration , Indicators and Reagents , Methylation , Quaternary Ammonium Compounds , Trimethylsilyl Compounds
3.
Vet Microbiol ; 33(1-4): 143-53, 1992 Nov.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1481354

ABSTRACT

A panel of 32 hybridoma cell lines secreting monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) reactive with African horsesickness virus serotype 4 (AHSV-4) has been developed. Four of the MAbs recognized the major core antigen VP7, twenty recognized the outer capsid protein VP2 and eight reacted with the non-structural protein NS1. With the VP7-specific MAbs a rapid and sensitive double antibody sandwich immunoassay has been developed to detect viral antigen in infected Vero cells and in spleen tissue from AHSV-infected horses. The sensitivity of the assay is 10 ng viral antigen per 100 microliters. The NS1-specific MAbs allowed visualization by immunofluorescence of tubule-like structures in the cytoplasm of infected Vero cells. This can be very useful as a confirmatory diagnostic procedure. The antigenic map of the outer capsid VP2 protein with MAbs is also reported.


Subject(s)
African Horse Sickness Virus/immunology , African Horse Sickness/diagnosis , Antibodies, Monoclonal , Antigens, Viral/immunology , Viral Proteins/immunology , African Horse Sickness Virus/isolation & purification , Animals , Antibodies, Monoclonal/biosynthesis , Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology , Binding, Competitive , Blotting, Western , Capsid/immunology , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Fluorescent Antibody Technique , Horses , Hybridomas , Mice , Neutralization Tests , Precipitin Tests , Vero Cells
4.
Am J Trop Med Hyg ; 46(1): 15-20, 1992 Jan.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1311154

ABSTRACT

Daphnetin is a dihydroxycoumarin that is being used in China for the treatment of coagulation disorders. It is also a chelator and an antioxidant. In vitro, daphnetin causes a 50% inhibition (IC50) of 3H-hypoxanthine incorporation by Plasmodium falciparum at concentrations between 25 and 40 microM. Several related compounds, such as scopoletin, 2, 3-dihydroxybenzoic acid and 3, 4-dihydroxybenzoic acid show no inhibitory activity. The antimalarial activity of daphnetin is inhibited by the addition of iron. Daphnetin does not appear to be an oxidant drug, since it does not spontaneously generate superoxide in vitro. However, it does alkylate bovine serum albumin when incubated in the presence of iron. In vivo, daphnetin significantly prolongs survival of P. yoelli-infected mice.


Subject(s)
Antimalarials/pharmacology , Malaria/drug therapy , Plasmodium falciparum/drug effects , Plasmodium yoelii/drug effects , Umbelliferones/pharmacology , Animals , Antimalarials/antagonists & inhibitors , Iron/pharmacology , Malaria/parasitology , Male , Mice , Superoxides/metabolism , Umbelliferones/antagonists & inhibitors
5.
Mol Biochem Parasitol ; 49(2): 181-9, 1991 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1775162

ABSTRACT

Artemisinin (qinghaosu), is a promising new antimalarial drug derived from an ancient Chinese herbal remedy. When [13-14C]artemisinin is added to cultures of Plasmodium falciparum, it is converted into a product with different solubility and chromatographic properties than the parent drug. Artemisinin reacts with hemin in aqueous solution to form an adduct with an apparent molecular weight of 914 which has identical chromatographic, solubility, and electrophoretic behavior to the parasite-derived product. The reaction between artemisinin and hemin, when carried out in the presence of red cell membranes, leads to the oxidation of protein thiols. Malarial parasites are rich in hemin; artemisinin's reactivity toward hemin may explain its selective toxicity to malarial parasites.


Subject(s)
Antimalarials/pharmacology , Artemisinins , Hemin/metabolism , Plasmodium falciparum/drug effects , Sesquiterpenes/pharmacology , Animals , Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid , Chromatography, Thin Layer , Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel , Plasmodium falciparum/metabolism , Spectrum Analysis
6.
J Gen Virol ; 72 ( Pt 10): 2445-56, 1991 Oct.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1919526

ABSTRACT

In this report we describe the topological mapping of neutralizing domains of canine parvovirus (CPV). We obtained 11 CPV-specific monoclonal antibodies (MAbs), six of which are neutralizing. The reactivities were as determined by ELISA and Western blot (immunoblot) analysis. VP2, the most abundant protein of the CPV capsid, seemed to contain all the neutralization sites. Also, an almost full-length genomic clone of CPV was constructed in the bacterial plasmid pUC18 to enable expression of CPV proteins. All the neutralizing MAbs recognized recombinant VP2 when it was expressed as a free protein in Escherichia coli but not when expressed as a fusion protein with glutathione-S-transferase. When two large fragments containing about 85% and 67% of the C terminus of VP2 were expressed, no neutralization sites were detected. When fusion proteins containing the N terminus were expressed, two linear determinants were mapped, one between residues 1 to 10 of VP2, and the other between amino acids 11 and 23. The peptide 11 GQPAVRNERATGS 23, recognized by MAb 3C9, was synthesized chemically and checked for immunogenicity, not being able to induce neutralizing activity. Although the antibody response in rabbits to all the fusion proteins was uniformly high, the anti-CPV response was very variable. Protein from pCPVEx11, which contains a T cell epitope (peptide PKIFINLAKKKKAG) present in the VP1-specific region as well as the B cell epitopes, seemed to be the most effective in inducing virus neutralization.


Subject(s)
B-Lymphocytes/immunology , Immunodominant Epitopes , Parvoviridae/immunology , Amino Acid Sequence , Animals , Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology , B-Lymphocytes/microbiology , Blotting, Western , Capsid/immunology , Capsid Proteins , Cats , Cell Line , Cloning, Molecular , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Genome, Viral , Molecular Sequence Data , Neutralization Tests , Parvoviridae/genetics , Parvoviridae/isolation & purification , Peptides/chemical synthesis , Peptides/immunology , Plasmids , Recombinant Fusion Proteins/immunology , Restriction Mapping , Viral Structural Proteins/immunology
7.
Virology ; 177(2): 764-7, 1990 Aug.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2371779

ABSTRACT

The linear single-stranded DNA genome of the porcine parvovirus, an autonomous parvovirus, was cloned in duplex form into the bacterial plasmid pUC18 using a simple and reliable method. These clones were stable during propagation in Escherichia coli JM109. The recombinant clones of porcine parvovirus were infectious when transfected into monolayers of swine testes cells as identified by the development of cytopathic effect, indirect immunofluorescence with specific antiserum, and hemagglutination assays. DNA isolated from progeny virus arising from transfected infectious clones was found to be indistinguishable from wild-type DNA by restriction enzyme analysis. Defective genomes could also be detected in the progeny DNA even though the infection was initiated with homogeneous, cloned DNA. The presence of the turn of the 5'-end loop seems to be necessary to get stable infectious clones.


Subject(s)
DNA Replication , Genes, Viral , Parvoviridae/genetics , Animals , Base Sequence , Cloning, Molecular/methods , DNA/genetics , DNA/isolation & purification , Molecular Sequence Data , Parvoviridae/pathogenicity , Restriction Mapping , Swine , Transfection , Virulence
8.
Br J Haematol ; 75(4): 598-602, 1990 Aug.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1698449

ABSTRACT

Desferroxamine has been shown to exhibit potent antimalarial activity. However, it is unclear as to whether desferroxamine functions by the chelation of extracellular, intra-erythrocytic, or parasite-associated iron. In order to determine desferroxamine's site of action, we have employed a large molecular weight dextran derivative of desferroxamine (70 kDa) and a reversible osmotic lysis technique by which erythrocytes were intracellularly loaded with this chelator. The desferroxamine-dextran derivative has virtually identical iron-binding characteristics to desferroxamine but, unlike desferroxamine, it is unable to cross the erythrocyte membrane. As previously shown, desferroxamine added to culture media exhibited potent antimalarial activity (mean effective inhibitory dose (ED50) approximately 6 microM). However, extracellular desferroxamine-dextran showed antimalarial activity only at very high doses (ED50 greater than or equal to 180 microM), indicating that extracellular iron chelation is not involved in the antimalarial activity of desferroxamine. The intra-erythrocytic entrapment of the desferroxamine-dextran derivative also had no significant effect, except at very high concentrations, demonstrating that desferroxamine does not remove a non-haem iron source necessary for malarial replication. The results of this study clearly suggests that the antimalarial activity of desferroxamine is directly related to its ability to enter the parasitic compartment and not due to the chelation of extra- or intra-erythrocytic iron pools necessary for malarial growth.


Subject(s)
Deferoxamine/metabolism , Plasmodium falciparum/metabolism , Animals , Deferoxamine/therapeutic use , Dextrans , Erythrocytes/parasitology , Humans , Hypoxanthines/metabolism , Iron Chelating Agents , Plasmodium falciparum/drug effects
9.
Biochem Pharmacol ; 40(2): 213-6, 1990 Jul 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2165401

ABSTRACT

The antimalarial activity of diethyldithiocarbamate (DDC) in vitro was potentiated by subtoxic concentrations of copper. DDC was also more potent in the presence of an intracellular source of copper, such as when parasites were grown in superoxide dismutase (SOD)-loaded erythrocytes. These data suggest that DDC forms a complex with copper, either intracellularly or extracellularly, which is toxic to malarial parasites. The exact cause of this toxicity is not known, but may be due to a membrane effect, since DDC and copper, in combination, exert a potent lytic effect on normal human erythrocytes.


Subject(s)
Antimalarials/pharmacology , Copper/pharmacology , Ditiocarb/pharmacology , Animals , Blood Cells/drug effects , Cell Membrane/drug effects , Drug Synergism , In Vitro Techniques , Plasmodium falciparum/drug effects , Superoxide Dismutase/pharmacology
10.
J Gen Virol ; 70 ( Pt 10): 2541-53, 1989 Oct.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2794971

ABSTRACT

We have determined the nucleotide sequence of an almost full-length clone of porcine parvovirus (PPV). The sequence is 4973 nucleotides (nt) long. The 3' end of virion DNA shows a Y-shaped configuration homologous to rodent parvoviruses. The 5' end of virion DNA shows a repetition of 127 nt at the carboxy terminus of the capsid proteins. The overall organization of the PPV genome is similar to those of other autonomous parvoviruses. There are two large open reading frames (ORFs) that almost entirely cover the genome, both located in the same frame of the complementary strand. The left ORF encodes the non-structural protein NS1 and the right ORF encodes the capsid proteins (VP1, VP2 and VP3). Promoter analysis, location of splicing sites and putative amino acid sequences for the viral proteins show a high homology of PPV with feline panleukopenia virus and canine parvoviruses (FPV and CPV) and rodent parvovirus. Therefore we conclude that PPV is related to the Kilham rat virus (KRV) group of autonomous parvoviruses formed by KRV, minute virus of mice, Lu III, H-1, FPV and CPV.


Subject(s)
DNA, Viral/genetics , Genes, Viral , Parvoviridae/genetics , Swine/microbiology , Amino Acid Sequence , Animals , Base Sequence , Cloning, Molecular , DNA, Viral/ultrastructure , Molecular Sequence Data , RNA Splicing , RNA, Messenger/genetics , Restriction Mapping , Viral Proteins/genetics
11.
Exp Parasitol ; 69(2): 125-8, 1989 Aug.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2666151

ABSTRACT

Plasmodium falciparum, unlike P. berghei, contains two superoxide dismutases (SOD). We have previously found that the major isozyme is cyanide sensitive and appears, like the P. berghei SOD, to be adopted from its host, whereas the minor isozyme was found to be cyanide insensitive. We now report that the minor parasite-associated enzyme is peroxide insensitive, suggesting that it is manganese containing.


Subject(s)
Isoenzymes/analysis , Plasmodium falciparum/enzymology , Superoxide Dismutase/analysis , Animals , Hydrogen Peroxide/pharmacology , Manganese/analysis , Superoxide Dismutase/antagonists & inhibitors
12.
Mol Biochem Parasitol ; 30(1): 77-82, 1988 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-3041278

ABSTRACT

We have measured and characterized three oxidant defense enzymes in early and late intraerythrocytic stages of the human malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. Isolated early intraerythrocytic stages contain catalase (24.1 mumol min-1 (mg protein)-1) and superoxide dismutase (SOD; 6.3 units (mg protein)-1) but little or no glutathione peroxidase (GPX; less than 2 mumol min-1 (mg protein)-1). Isolated late intraerythrocytic stages of P. falciparum contain slightly less catalase (17.0 mumol min-1 (mg protein)-1) but significantly more GPX (7.7 mumol min-1 (mg protein)-1) and SOD (25.1 units (mg protein)-1). P. falciparum, like P. berghei, probably acquires most of its SOD from its host, since parasite-associated SOD is predominantly cyanide-sensitive, and has the same pI as host SOD. Unlike P. berghei, however, late stages of P. falciparum contain an additional SOD isozyme which is not cyanide-sensitive and may represent an endogenous enzyme. Parasites grown in red cells that have been partially depleted of SOD are more sensitive to exogenously generated superoxide, suggesting some dependence of the parasite on host SOD.


Subject(s)
Oxygen/metabolism , Plasmodium falciparum/enzymology , Animals , Catalase/physiology , Erythrocytes/enzymology , Erythrocytes/parasitology , Glutathione Peroxidase/physiology , Host-Parasite Interactions , Malaria/parasitology , Plasmodium falciparum/growth & development , Superoxide Dismutase/physiology , Time Factors
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