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Comb Chem High Throughput Screen ; 5(4): 313-25, 2002 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12052182

ABSTRACT

In vitro selection with either DNA or RNA libraries was performed against the TAR RNA element of HIV-1. The role of the selection conditions on the outcome of the selection was evaluated by varying the magnesium concentration and the temperature. The selection stringency was demonstrated to determine i) the affinity of the best identified aptamers for the TAR target, and ii) the type of interaction between the two partners. Selections performed with a DNA library under low (4 degrees C, 10 mM magnesium) and high stringency (23 degrees C, 3 mM magnesium) led to the emergence of "kissing aptamers"; but even if the motif interacting directly with the TAR loop were identical in the two kinds of aptamers, the consensus was extended from eight to thirteen nucleotides when the Mg(2+) concentration was decreased from 10 to 3 mM. Similar kissing aptamers were selected at 23 degrees C and 37 degrees C starting with two different RNA libraries under identical ionic conditions. In addition, selection performed at 37 degrees C yielded a significant proportion of antisense sequences. Only antisense RNAs complementary to the TAR loop competitively inhibited the association of a Tat peptide with TAR.


Subject(s)
DNA, Viral/chemistry , HIV-1/genetics , Magnesium/chemistry , RNA, Viral/chemistry , Temperature , Base Sequence , DNA, Viral/genetics , Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay , Molecular Sequence Data , Nucleic Acid Conformation , Oligonucleotides , RNA, Viral/genetics
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J Biol Chem ; 273(7): 3895-900, 1998 Feb 13.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9461573

ABSTRACT

In the human lymphoblastoid T cell line JJhan-5.1, stably transfected with a human immunodeficiency virus-1 long terminal repeat luciferase vector, the level of luciferase activity is dependent on activation of the nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) transcription factor. Tumor necrosis factor-induced luciferase activity was not modified in JJhan-5.1 cells co-cultivated with murine adenocarcinoma EMT-6 cells but was strongly decreased when nitric oxide (NO) synthase 2 expression was induced in these cells. Two NO synthase inhibitors counteracted this inhibitory effect. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha binding to JJhan-5.1 cells was not modified after incubation with EMT-6 cells. Viability and protein synthesis in JJhan-5.1 cells were also unchanged. Induction of NF-kappaB DNA binding activity was inhibited when EMT-6 cells expressed NO synthase 2 activity. Aminoguanidine, which completely abolished nitrite production, prevented this inhibition. NF-kappaB activation was also strongly inhibited by S-nitrosoglutathione but was marginally affected by N-(2-aminoethyl)-N-(2-hydroxy-2-nitrosohydrazino)-1, 2-ethylenediamine. Taken together, these results indicated that NO-related species, released by EMT-6 effector cells and probably different from NO itself, inhibited NF-kappaB activation in human lymphoblastoid target cells. Consequently, transcriptional activity of a long terminal repeat-driven luciferase gene construct was markedly diminished.


Subject(s)
HIV Long Terminal Repeat/genetics , NF-kappa B/metabolism , Nitric Oxide Synthase/metabolism , Transcriptional Activation/genetics , Animals , Coculture Techniques , Glutathione/analogs & derivatives , Glutathione/pharmacology , Guanidines/pharmacology , Humans , Luciferases/genetics , Luciferases/metabolism , Mice , NF-kappa B/antagonists & inhibitors , NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester/pharmacology , Nitric Oxide/pharmacology , Nitric Oxide Synthase/antagonists & inhibitors , Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II , Nitroso Compounds/pharmacology , S-Nitrosoglutathione , Transcription Factors/metabolism , Triazenes/pharmacology , Tumor Cells, Cultured , Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/antagonists & inhibitors , Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/metabolism
3.
Arch Biochem Biophys ; 340(1): 117-23, 1997 Apr 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9126284

ABSTRACT

Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) type II are induced in macrophages by interferon (IFN)-gamma and lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Nitric oxide has been previously shown to inhibit IDO activity. We studied whether metabolites of tryptophan via the IDO pathway could alter NOS II activity. In RAW 264.7 cells, the phenolic antioxidant 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid (OH-AA), but not anthranilic acid, inhibited citrulline synthesis by NOS II at sub-millimolar concentrations, when added 1 h before IFN-gamma and LPS. OH-AA inhibited NOS II activity in cytosolic extracts, suggesting a direct action of OH-AA on NOS II protein. Moreover, expression of NOS II mRNA and activation of the nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappa B) in RAW 264.7 cells were decreased by a pretreatment with OH-AA, but not anthranilic acid, before addition of IFN-gamma and LPS. This pretreatment also inhibited activation of NF-kappa B in response to TNF-alpha in lymphoblastoid J.Jhan5-1 cells. Finally, expression of a long terminal repeat of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-LTR)-driven luciferase reporter gene, controlled by NF-kappa B activation, was severely decreased by OH-AA or 3-hydroxykynurenine in J.Jhan5-1 cells. Other tryptophan derivatives were inactive. These data identify OH-AA as an aminophenolic tryptophan derivative inhibiting NF-kappa B activation and impairing both NOS II expression and activity in a millimolar concentration range.


Subject(s)
3-Hydroxyanthranilic Acid/pharmacology , Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology , Macrophages/enzymology , Nitric Oxide Synthase/antagonists & inhibitors , Animals , Cell Line , Citrulline/metabolism , Enzyme Induction/drug effects , Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/drug effects , HIV Long Terminal Repeat/genetics , Humans , Mice , NF-kappa B/metabolism , Rats , Transcription, Genetic
4.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun ; 208(1): 295-301, 1995 Mar 08.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-7534074

ABSTRACT

Liposomes prepared from phosphatidylinositolmannosides (extracted from BCG) and cholesterol are efficiently endocytosed by macrophages. Phagocytosis of particles or microbes modifies macrophage metabolism and in some cases, delivers potent stimulating signals to macrophages. We examined the effect of phosphatidylinositolmannoside-based liposomes on three macrophage functions especially important for host defenses: nitric oxide production, oxidative burst and TNF-alpha secretion. Phosphatidylinositolmannoside-based liposomes, added as empty vesicles, induced a strong NO synthase activity in mouse peritoneal macrophages primed either by interferon-gamma or by trehalose dimycolate. They also induced a moderate production of TNF-alpha. Phosphatidylinositolmannosides conferred activating properties to pH-sensitive liposomes. In contrast, liposomes composed of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylserine were unable to activate primed macrophages.


Subject(s)
Amino Acid Oxidoreductases/biosynthesis , Macrophages, Peritoneal/enzymology , Phosphatidylinositols/pharmacology , Animals , Cholesterol , Cord Factors/pharmacology , Drug Carriers , Endocytosis , Enzyme Induction/drug effects , Hydrogen-Ion Concentration , Interferon-gamma/pharmacology , Kinetics , Lipopolysaccharides/pharmacology , Liposomes , Macrophages, Peritoneal/drug effects , Mice , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Mice, Inbred DBA , Mycobacterium bovis , Nitric Oxide Synthase , Phosphatidylinositols/administration & dosage , Phosphatidylinositols/isolation & purification , Respiratory Burst/drug effects , Respiratory Burst/physiology , Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/biosynthesis
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