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1.
Cell Cycle ; 17(6): 766-779, 2018.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29417873

RESUMO

Human leukemia Jurkat T cells were analyzed for apoptosis and cell cycle by flow cytometry, using the Annexin V/propidium iodide (PI) standard assay, and a simple PI staining in Triton X-100/digitonin-enriched PI/RNase buffer, respectively. Cells treated with doxorubicin or menadione displayed a very strong correlation between the apoptotic cell fraction measured by the Annexin V/PI assay, and the weight of a secondary cell population that emerged on the forward scatter (FS)/PI plot, as well as on the side scatter (SS)/PI and FL1/PI plots generated from parallel cell cycle recordings. In both cases, the Pearson correlation coefficients were >0.99. In cell cycle determinations, PI fluorescence was detected on FL3 (620/30 nm), and control samples exhibited the expected linear dependence of FL3 on FL1 (525/40 nm) signals. However, increasing doses of doxorubicin or menadione generated a growing subpopulation of cells displaying a definite right-shift on the FS/FL3, SS/FL3 and FL1/FL3 plots, as well as decreased PI fluorescence, indicative of ongoing fragmentation and loss of nuclear DNA. By gating on these events, the resulting fraction of presumably sub-cycling cells (i.e. cells with cleaved DNA, counting sub-G0/G1, sub-S and sub-G2/M cells altogether) was closely similar to the apoptotic rate assessed by Annexin V/PI labeling. Taken together, these findings suggest a possible way to recognize the entire population of cells undergoing apoptotic DNA cleavage and simultaneously determine the cell cycle distribution of non-apoptotic cells in PI-labeled cell samples with various degrees of DNA fragmentation, using a simple and reproducible multiparametric analysis of flow cytometric recordings.


Assuntos
Fragmentação do DNA , Citometria de Fluxo/métodos , Propídio/química , Antineoplásicos/toxicidade , Apoptose/efeitos dos fármacos , Ciclo Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Fragmentação do DNA/efeitos dos fármacos , Doxorrubicina/toxicidade , Pontos de Checagem da Fase G1 do Ciclo Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Pontos de Checagem da Fase G2 do Ciclo Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Células Jurkat , Vitamina K 3/toxicidade
3.
Pharmacol Res ; 103: 300-17, 2016 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26687095

RESUMO

We have investigated the growth-suppressive action of epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) on human leukemia Jurkat T cells. Results show a strong correlation between the dose-dependent reduction of clonogenic survival following acute EGCG treatments and the EGCG-induced decline of the mitochondrial level of Ca(2+). The cell killing ability of EGCG was synergistically enhanced by menadione. In addition, the cytotoxic effect of EGCG applied alone or in combination with menadione was accompanied by apoptosis induction. We also observed that in acute treatments EGCG displays strong antioxidant properties in the intracellular milieu, but concurrently triggers some oxidative stress generating mechanisms that can fully develop on a longer timescale. In parallel, EGCG dose-dependently induced mitochondrial depolarization during exposure, but this condition was subsequently reversed to a persistent hyperpolarized mitochondrial state that was dependent on the activity of respiratory Complex I. Fluorimetric measurements suggest that EGCG is a mitochondrial Complex III inhibitor and indicate that EGCG evokes a specific cellular fluorescence with emission at 400nm and two main excitation bands (at 330nm and 350nm) that may originate from a mitochondrial supercomplex containing dimeric Complex III and dimeric ATP-synthase, and therefore could provide a valuable means to characterize the functional properties of the respiratory chain.


Assuntos
Catequina/análogos & derivados , Células Jurkat/efeitos dos fármacos , Vitamina K 3/farmacologia , Apoptose/efeitos dos fármacos , Cálcio/metabolismo , Catequina/farmacologia , Sobrevivência Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Células Jurkat/metabolismo , Potencial da Membrana Mitocondrial/efeitos dos fármacos , Mitocôndrias/efeitos dos fármacos , Mitocôndrias/metabolismo , Mitocôndrias/fisiologia , Estresse Oxidativo/efeitos dos fármacos , Espécies Reativas de Oxigênio/metabolismo
4.
J Photochem Photobiol B ; 139: 76-84, 2014 Oct 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24912405

RESUMO

The study of the photoinduced ultraweak photon emission in the optical wavelength range, namely the Delayed Luminescence, from human cells and tissues has an increasingly growing interest in view of its possible application in optical biopsy. Due to the low level, dedicated experimental set-up are necessary to reveal such photoluminescence signal. The paper reviews the results obtained in the field of cancer research, by using the experimental equipment for fast ultraweak luminescence analysis ARETUSA developed at the National Southern Laboratories of the National Nuclear Physics Institute (LNS-INFN), in Catania, Italy. Delayed Luminescence signals from normal and cancer cells are compared and the relationship between Delayed Luminescence and apoptosis is investigated.


Assuntos
Medições Luminescentes/instrumentação , Neoplasias/patologia , Apoptose , Humanos , Modelos Biológicos
5.
Leuk Res ; 38(7): 836-49, 2014 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24862793

RESUMO

The flavonoid quercetin and menadione (vitamin K3) are known as potent apoptogens in human leukemia Jurkat T cells. We explored some underlying mechanisms and the potential relevance of the combination quercetin-menadione for clinical applications. In acute treatments, quercetin manifested a strong antioxidant character, but induced a transient loss of Δψm, likely mediated by opening of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore. After removal of quercetin, persistent mitochondrial hyperpolarization was generated via stimulation of respiratory Complex I. In contrast, menadione-induced Δψm dissipation was only partially and transiently reversed after menadione removal. Results indicate that Ca(2+) release is a necessary event in quercetin-induced cell death and that the survival response to quercetin is delineated within 1h from exposure. Depending on dose, the two agents exhibited either antagonistic or synergistic effects in reducing clonogenicity of Jurkat cells. 24-h combinatorial regimens at equimolar concentrations of 10-15 µM, which are compatible with a clinically achievable (and safe) scheme, reduced cell viability at efficient rates. Altogether, these findings support the idea that the combination quercetin-menadione could improve the outcome of conventional leukemia therapies, and warrant the utility of additional studies to investigate the therapeutic effects of this combination in different cellular or animal models for leukemia.


Assuntos
Leucemia/tratamento farmacológico , Quercetina/farmacologia , Vitamina K 3/farmacologia , Proliferação de Células/efeitos dos fármacos , Sobrevivência Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Sinergismo Farmacológico , Humanos , Células Jurkat , Leucemia/patologia , Potenciais da Membrana/efeitos dos fármacos , NAD/metabolismo , Espécies Reativas de Oxigênio/metabolismo , Rotenona/farmacologia
6.
Int J Biol Macromol ; 65: 176-87, 2014 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24444882

RESUMO

The polymorphism of amyloid fibrils is potentially crucial as it may underlie the natural variability of amyloid diseases and could be important in developing a fuller understanding of the molecular basis of protein deposition disorders. This study examines morphological differences in lysozyme fibrils and the implications of these differences in terms of cytotoxicity. The structural characteristics of amyloid fibrils formed under two different experimental conditions (acidic and neutral) were evaluated using spectroscopic methods, atomic force microscopy and image analysis. Growth curves and apoptotic/necrotic assays were used to determine the cytotoxic effect of fibrils on the LLC-PK1 renal cells. The results reveal that both types of mature lysozyme amyloid fibrils are actively involved in the cytotoxic process, however each exhibit different levels of cytotoxicity. Fibrils formed at acidic pH affect cell growth in a dose-dependent manner, but a threshold-dependent inhibition of cell growth was observed in the case of lysozyme fibrils prepared at neutral pH. Experiments examining the mechanism of the cell death suggest that both types of mature lysozyme fibrils trigger late apoptosis/necrosis at different fibril concentrations. Our findings clearly indicate that the intrinsic differences between amyloid fibrils due to their polymorphism result in different degrees of cytotoxicity.


Assuntos
Amiloide/química , Amiloide/toxicidade , Células Epiteliais/efeitos dos fármacos , Rim/citologia , Muramidase/química , Muramidase/toxicidade , Multimerização Proteica , Animais , Apoptose/efeitos dos fármacos , Proliferação de Células/efeitos dos fármacos , Citotoxinas/química , Citotoxinas/toxicidade , Células Epiteliais/citologia , Concentração de Íons de Hidrogênio , Necrose/induzido quimicamente , Estrutura Secundária de Proteína
7.
J Nat Prod ; 77(2): 250-7, 2014 Feb 28.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24456004

RESUMO

Since the administration of synthetic medicines is associated with drug resistance and undesired side effects, utilization of natural compounds could be an alternative and complementary modality to inhibit or prevent the development of tumors. Epigallocatechin 3-O-gallate (EGCG, 1), the major flavan component of green tea, and genistein (2), a soy isoflavonoid, are known to have chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic effects against cancer. This study demonstrated that both flavonoids inhibit cell proliferation, an effect enhanced under serum-free conditions. Compound 1, but not 2, induced downregulation of ErbB1 and ErbB2 in mammary and epidermoid carcinoma cells, and its inhibitory effect on cell viability was mediated by the 67 kDa laminin receptor (67LR). While 1 was superior in inducing cell death, 2 was more efficient in arresting the tumor cells in the G2/M phase. Furthermore, number and brightness analysis revealed that 1 decreased the homoclustering of a lipid raft marker, glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored GFP, and it also reduced the co-localization between lipid rafts and 67LR. The main conclusion made is that the primary target of 1 may be the lipid raft component of the plasma membrane followed by secondary changes in the expression of ErbB proteins. Compound 2, on the other hand, must have other unidentified targets.


Assuntos
Anticarcinógenos/química , Anticarcinógenos/farmacologia , Catequina/análogos & derivados , Flavonoides/farmacologia , Genisteína/farmacologia , Receptores de Laminina/efeitos dos fármacos , Proteínas Ribossômicas/efeitos dos fármacos , Chá/química , Algoritmos , Anticarcinógenos/isolamento & purificação , Apoptose/efeitos dos fármacos , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/metabolismo , Catequina/química , Catequina/isolamento & purificação , Catequina/farmacologia , Proliferação de Células/efeitos dos fármacos , Regulação para Baixo , Receptores ErbB/genética , Receptores ErbB/metabolismo , Feminino , Flavonoides/química , Flavonoides/isolamento & purificação , Pontos de Checagem da Fase G2 do Ciclo Celular/genética , Pontos de Checagem da Fase G2 do Ciclo Celular/fisiologia , Genes erbB-1/genética , Genes erbB-1/fisiologia , Genes erbB-2/genética , Genes erbB-2/fisiologia , Genisteína/química , Genisteína/isolamento & purificação , Humanos , Estrutura Molecular , Polifenóis/farmacologia , Receptores de Laminina/genética , Receptores de Laminina/metabolismo , Receptores de Laminina/fisiologia , Glycine max/química
8.
J Biomed Opt ; 18(12): 127006, 2013 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24365956

RESUMO

The role of mitochondrial complex I in ultraweak photon-induced delayed photon emission [delayed luminescence (DL)] of human leukemia Jurkat T cells was probed by using complex I targeting agents like rotenone, menadione, and quercetin. Rotenone, a complex I-specific inhibitor, dose-dependently increased the mitochondrial level of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH), decreased clonogenic survival, and induced apoptosis. A strong correlation was found between the mitochondrial levels of NADH and oxidized flavin mononucleotide (FMNox) in rotenone-, menadione- and quercetin-treated cells. Rotenone enhanced DL dose-dependently, whereas quercetin and menadione inhibited DL as well as NADH or FMNox. Collectively, the data suggest that DL of Jurkat cells originates mainly from mitochondrial complex I, which functions predominantly as a dimer and less frequently as a tetramer. In individual monomers, both pairs of pyridine nucleotide (NADH/reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate) sites and flavin (FMN-a/FMN-b) sites appear to bind cooperatively their specific ligands. Enhancement of delayed red-light emission by rotenone suggests that the mean time for one-electron reduction of ubiquinone or FMN-a by the terminal Fe/S center (N2) is 20 or 284 µs, respectively. All these findings suggest that DL spectroscopy could be used as a reliable, sensitive, and robust technique to probe electron flow within complex I in situ.


Assuntos
Complexo I de Transporte de Elétrons , Espectrometria de Fluorescência/métodos , Apoptose/efeitos dos fármacos , Sobrevivência Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Complexo I de Transporte de Elétrons/química , Complexo I de Transporte de Elétrons/efeitos dos fármacos , Complexo I de Transporte de Elétrons/metabolismo , Corantes Fluorescentes/química , Corantes Fluorescentes/metabolismo , Humanos , Peróxido de Hidrogênio/farmacologia , Células Jurkat , Cinética , NAD/química , NAD/metabolismo , NADP/química , NADP/metabolismo , Rotenona/farmacologia , Desacopladores/farmacologia
9.
Arch Biochem Biophys ; 540(1-2): 145-59, 2013 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24211435

RESUMO

Ryanodine receptors are generally thought to possess a high-affinity activating cytosolic Ca(2+) site and a low-affinity inhibitory cytosolic Ca(2+) site. By performing conformation selective measurements in which quercetin was used as a fluorescent marker for RyR3 (ryanodine receptor type 3) in Jurkat cells, we now find that the rectified RyR3 channel in open conformation may be regulated in situ by two cytosolic activating Ca(2+) sites, of low and high affinity, respectively, whereas no inhibitory Ca(2+) effect could be delineated. In the closed rectified channel, as well as in the open hindered channel, only the high affinity activating Ca(2+) site and the inhibitory Ca(2+) site were functional, whereas in the closed hindered channel all three regulatory Ca(2+) sites appeared to be operational. RyR3 also seems to possess one activating and two inhibitory quercetin sites. Corresponding Hill coefficients and affinities of these regulatory sites were estimated. Quercetin cellular uptake exhibited an initial rapid phase (~1.04 min), followed by slow accumulation of free quercetin inside the cytosol (~34.5 min). The RyR3-mediated Ca(2+) release current increased from a baseline of 247 to 287 pA in 1 min. after addition of 50 µM quercetin and then declined slowly to a plateau of 265 pA.


Assuntos
Sinalização do Cálcio/fisiologia , Cálcio/metabolismo , Corantes Fluorescentes/metabolismo , Quercetina/metabolismo , Canal de Liberação de Cálcio do Receptor de Rianodina/metabolismo , Citosol/metabolismo , Humanos , Ativação do Canal Iônico , Células Jurkat , Canal de Liberação de Cálcio do Receptor de Rianodina/química , Espectrometria de Fluorescência
10.
Pflugers Arch ; 465(8): 1101-19, 2013 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23475436

RESUMO

Because channels of intracellular organelles are not directly accessible to the patch-clamp technique, the activity (open probability) of intracellular ion channels in intact cells has so far eluded direct examination. Here, we present strong evidence that the ratio F380/F440 of the quercetin-specific cellular fluorescence emitted at 540 nm upon excitation at 380/440 nm reflects the open probability of an endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+) release channel, the ryanodine receptor (RyR), in both intact and permeabilized Jurkat cells. The time course of the Ca(2+) release signal induced by high levels of quercetin in intact cells and that of F380/F440 were strongly correlated. The RyR specific inhibitor, ryanodine, the RyR type 3 and 1 but not type 2 specific inhibitor, dantrolene, as well as the non-specific RyR inhibitor, ruthenium red, depressed consistently the quercetin-induced Ca(2+) transient. Confocal microscopy confirmed that the dual fluorescent signal emitted by quercetin colocalizes with the endoplasmic reticulum, not the mitochondria. A novel regulatory mechanism was identified whereby RyR activity under physiological conditions is partially suppressed (hindered channel), whereas the channel becomes nearly fully activated after exposure to millimolar concentrations of bulk cytosolic Ca(2+) and subsequent chelation of Ca(2+) (rectified channel). Upon rectification, the dependence of F380/F440 on the cytosolic Ca(2+) concentration was remarkably similar to that of the open probability of the RyR type 3, not 1 or 2, reported from bilayer experiments. So, quercetin appears to be a semi-specific fluorescent probe for the activity of ryanodine receptors, which in our Jurkat (clone E6.1) cell preparations probably reports the type 3 RyR activity.


Assuntos
Corantes Fluorescentes/metabolismo , Células Jurkat/metabolismo , Quercetina/metabolismo , Canal de Liberação de Cálcio do Receptor de Rianodina/metabolismo , Cálcio/metabolismo , Canais de Cálcio/metabolismo , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Citosol/metabolismo , Retículo Endoplasmático/metabolismo , Humanos
11.
Oxid Med Cell Longev ; 2012: 498914, 2012.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22829956

RESUMO

Following previous work, we investigated in more detail the relationship between apoptosis and delayed luminescence (DL) in human leukemia Jurkat T cells under a wide variety of treatments. We used menadione and hydrogen peroxide to induce oxidative stress and two flavonoids, quercetin, and epigallocatechin gallate, applied alone or in combination with menadione or H(2)O(2). 62 MeV proton beams were used to irradiate cells under a uniform dose of 2 or 10 Gy, respectively. We assessed apoptosis, cell cycle distributions, and DL. Menadione, H(2)O(2) and quercetin were potent inducers of apoptosis and DL inhibitors. Quercetin decreased clonogenic survival and the NAD(P)H level in a dose-dependent manner. Proton irradiation with 2 Gy but not 10 Gy increased the apoptotic rate. However, both doses induced a substantial G(2)/M arrest. Quercetin reduced apoptosis and prolonged the G(2)/M arrest induced by radiation. DL spectroscopy indicated that proton irradiation disrupted the electron flow within Complex I of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, thus explaining the massive necrosis induced by 10 Gy of protons and also suggested an equivalent action of menadione and quercetin at the level of the Fe/S center N2, which may be mediated by their binding to a common site within Complex I, probably the rotenone-binding site.


Assuntos
Apoptose/efeitos dos fármacos , Apoptose/efeitos da radiação , Flavonoides/farmacologia , Leucemia/patologia , Luminescência , Oxidantes/toxicidade , Prótons , Catequina/análogos & derivados , Catequina/farmacologia , Ciclo Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Sobrevivência Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Células Clonais , Humanos , Peróxido de Hidrogênio/toxicidade , Células Jurkat , Cinética , NADP/metabolismo , Teoria Quântica , Quercetina/farmacologia , Fatores de Tempo , Vitamina K 3/toxicidade
12.
J Mol Model ; 18(2): 721-36, 2012 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21562824

RESUMO

We use a detailed modeling formalism based on numerical simulations of local calcium release events where the blurring of the image, the presence of diffusional barriers provided by large organelles situated close to the release site, as well as the variable position of the scan line with respect to the release site are taken into consideration. We have investigated the effect of the fluorescence noise fluctuations on the accuracy in computing the signal mass from linescan recordings and obtained a quantitative description of both the signal mass and the local increase in the free Ca(2+) level as a function of the release current, the release duration and the orientation of the scan line, for three different levels of noise magnitudes. The model could provide a very good fit to a wide set of available experimental data regarding the signal mass of puffs visualized by fluorescence microscopy in the Xenopus oocyte loaded with 40 µM Oregon Green-1 in the absence of the calcium chelator EGTA. Numerical simulations also predict the amplitude and the kinetics of calcium signals evolving in the absence of the indicator, and indicate that sub-maximal activation of IP(3) receptors could produce in average levels of about 2 µM and 0.4 µM free Ca(2+) close to a release site located in the animal or in the vegetal hemisphere, respectively, whereas the maximal levels reached in more rare events could be 11 µM and 4 µM, respectively.


Assuntos
Cálcio/química , Simulação por Computador , Modelos Teóricos , Animais , Cálcio/metabolismo , Corantes Fluorescentes , Cinética , Microscopia de Fluorescência , Oócitos/metabolismo , Fatores de Tempo
13.
Biosystems ; 102(2-3): 134-47, 2010.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20851737

RESUMO

We present a model-based method for estimating the effective concentration of the active drug applied by a pressure pulse to an individual cell in a patch-clamp setup, which could be of practical use in the analysis of ligand-induced whole-cell currents recorded in patch-clamp experiments. Our modelling results outline several important factors which may be involved in the high variability of the electric response of the cells, and indicate that with a pressure pulse duration of 1s and diameter of the perfusion tip of 600 µm, elevated amounts of drug can accumulate locally between the pipette tip and the cell. Hence, the effective agonist concentration at the cell membrane level can be consistently higher than the initial concentration inside the perfusion tubes. We performed finite-difference and finite-element simulations to investigate the diffusion/convection effects on the agonist distribution on the cell membrane. Our model can explain the delay between the commencement of acetylcholine application and the onset of the whole-cell current that we recorded on human rhabdomyosarcoma TE671 cells, and reproduce quantitatively the decrease of signal latency with the concentration of agonist in the pipette. Results also show that not only the geometry of the bath chamber and pipette tip, but also the transport parameters of the diffusive and convective phenomena in the bath solution are determinant for the amplitude and kinetics of the recorded currents and have to be accounted for when analyzing patch-clamp data.


Assuntos
Acetilcolina/farmacologia , Algoritmos , Membrana Celular/fisiologia , Modelos Biológicos , Acetilcolina/farmacocinética , Transporte Biológico , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Membrana Celular/metabolismo , Difusão , Humanos , Potenciais da Membrana/efeitos dos fármacos , Técnicas de Patch-Clamp/instrumentação , Técnicas de Patch-Clamp/métodos , Fatores de Tempo , Vasodilatadores/farmacocinética , Vasodilatadores/farmacologia
14.
Cell Biochem Biophys ; 58(3): 169-79, 2010 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20697976

RESUMO

Menadione (MD) is an effective cytotoxic drug able to produce intracellularly large amounts of superoxide anion. Quercetin (QC), a widely distributed bioflavonoid, can exert both antioxidant and pro-oxidant effects and is known to specifically inhibit cell proliferation and induce apoptosis in different cancer cell types. We have investigated the relation between delayed luminescence (DL) induced by UV-laser excitation and the effects of MD, hydrogen peroxide, and QC on apoptosis and cell cycle in human leukemia Jurkat T-cells. Treatments with 500 µM H2O2 and 250 µM MD for 20 min produced 66.0 ± 4.9 and 46.4 ± 8.6% apoptotic cell fractions, respectively. Long-term (24 h) pre-exposure to 5 µM, but not 0.5 µM QC enhanced apoptosis induced by MD, whereas short-term (1 h) pre-incubation with 10 µM QC offered 50% protection against H2O2-induced apoptosis, but potentiated apoptosis induced by MD. Since physiological levels of QC in the blood are normally less than 10 µM, these data can provide relevant information regarding the benefits of flavonoid-combined treatments of leukemia. All the three drugs exerted significant effects on DL. Our data are consistent with (1) the involvement of Complex I of the mitochondrial respiratory chain as an important source of delayed light emission on the 10 µs-10 ms scale, (2) the ability of superoxide anions to quench DL on the 100 µs-10 ms scale, probably via inhibition of reverse electron transfer at the Fe/S centers in Complex I, and (3) the relative insensitivity of DL to intracellular OH• and H2O2 levels.


Assuntos
Antineoplásicos/farmacologia , Apoptose/efeitos dos fármacos , Peróxido de Hidrogênio/toxicidade , Quercetina/farmacologia , Vitamina K 3/farmacologia , Proteínas de Ciclo Celular/metabolismo , Citometria de Fluxo , Humanos , Células Jurkat , Cinética , Leucemia/tratamento farmacológico , Leucemia/patologia , Espectrometria de Fluorescência
15.
Chaos ; 19(3): 037106, 2009 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19792031

RESUMO

We propose a model-based method of interpreting linescan images observed in Xenopus oocytes with the use of Oregon Green-1 as a fluorescent dye. We use a detailed modeling formalism based on numerical simulations that incorporate physical barriers for local diffusion, and, by assuming a Gaussian distribution of release durations, we derive the distributions of release Ca(2+) amounts and currents, fluorescence amplitudes, and puff widths. We analyze a wide set of available data collected from 857 and 281 events observed in the animal and the vegetal hemispheres of the oocyte, respectively. A relatively small fraction of events appear to involve coupling of two or three adjacent clusters of Ca(2+) releasing channels. In the animal hemisphere, the distribution of release currents with a mean of 1.4 pA presents a maximum at 1.0 pA and a rather long tail extending up to 5 pA. The overall distribution of liberated Ca(2+) amounts exhibits a dominant peak at 120 fC, a smaller peak at 375 fC, and an average of 166 fC. Ca(2+) amounts and release fluxes in the vegetal hemisphere appear to be 3.6 and 1.6 times smaller than in the animal hemisphere, respectively. Predicted diameters of elemental release sites are approximately 1.0 microm in the animal and approximately 0.5 microm in the vegetal hemisphere, but the side-to-side separation between adjacent sites appears to be identical (approximately 0.4 microm). By fitting the model to individual puffs we can estimate the quantity of liberated calcium, the release current, the orientation of the scan line, and the dimension of the corresponding release site.


Assuntos
Relógios Biológicos/fisiologia , Sinalização do Cálcio/fisiologia , Microscopia Confocal/métodos , Modelos Biológicos , Dinâmica não Linear , Oócitos/fisiologia , Oscilometria/métodos , Algoritmos , Animais , Simulação por Computador , Humanos , Modelos Estatísticos , Xenopus laevis
16.
Biosystems ; 92(3): 259-69, 2008 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18450366

RESUMO

The complex network of Ca(2+) signals uses local events as building blocks for generating global calcium signals with different shapes. However, the nature of the large time- and space-scales of local calcium signals observed in Xenopus oocytes has remained unclear. By numeric simulations that include optical blurring of the image and the geometrical restrictions imposed by tubules of the endoplasmic reticulum or other cell structures, we investigate how the fluorescent dye affect the observed features of calcium events, such as rate of signal decay, spatial size, fluorescence amplitude, or the apparent diffusion like from a point source in a spherically symmetric space. We add more evidence that, irrespective of the dye properties, local calcium signals produced in the presence of tubular cellular structures are consistently wider than expected in a homogeneous environment. Moreover, the spatial dimension and the decay time of the event increase with the quantity of liberated Ca(2+). Our results also indicate that a fast binding Ca(2+) indicator that does not bind to cytosolic proteins yields fast signals when the event is observed in the front of the release site, and slow signals when the event is viewed from the opposite side of the tubule. We propose several ways to test our model by various experimental procedures.


Assuntos
Sinalização do Cálcio , Cálcio/análise , Cálcio/metabolismo , Retículo Endoplasmático/metabolismo , Corantes Fluorescentes/análise , Modelos Biológicos , Cálcio/química , Sinalização do Cálcio/efeitos dos fármacos , Simulação por Computador , Corantes Fluorescentes/química , Corantes Fluorescentes/farmacologia
17.
Eur Biophys J ; 37(6): 793-806, 2008 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18253727

RESUMO

We have developed a model of the tetrameric ryanodine receptor--the calcium channel of the sarcoplasmic reticulum. The model accurately describes published experimental data on channel activity at various concentrations of Ca2+, caffeine and quercetin. The proposed mechanisms involve allosteric regulation of Ca2+ affinity by both caffeine and quercetin, and the existence of two independent, A- and I-gates controlled by Ca2+ binding to an activating and an inhibitory module of the receptor. There are four different configurations of the receptor that affect ligand binding to the activation module, but not to the inhibition module. Consequently, there are four kinetic modes for the A-gate and one mode for the I-gate. At a certain moment, the receptor can be in any of the four possible conformations with equal probability. By fitting the data we are able to derive ligand affinities and Hill coefficients, to describe the observation that quercetin is an activating agent stronger than caffeine, and that caffeine and quercetin activate the channel at very low Ca2+ concentration (approximately 10(-11) M). We predict that the activation regime at saturating caffeine or quercetin should present four distinct regions at increasing Ca2+, corresponding to the four different gating modes. Another interesting prediction is the enlargement of the activity domain toward higher Ca2+ concentrations in the presence of caffeine or quercetin.


Assuntos
Cafeína/farmacologia , Sinalização do Cálcio/fisiologia , Cálcio/metabolismo , Ativação do Canal Iônico/fisiologia , Modelos Biológicos , Quercetina/farmacologia , Canal de Liberação de Cálcio do Receptor de Rianodina/fisiologia , Cafeína/química , Cálcio/química , Simulação por Computador , Ativação do Canal Iônico/efeitos dos fármacos , Modelos Químicos , Quercetina/química , Canal de Liberação de Cálcio do Receptor de Rianodina/química , Canal de Liberação de Cálcio do Receptor de Rianodina/efeitos dos fármacos
18.
Cell Calcium ; 42(3): 245-60, 2007 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17240446

RESUMO

To explain the large time and space scales of elementary calcium events in Xenopus oocytes it is assumed that the Ca2+ source is located on tubules of the endoplasmic reticulum, which provide local barriers for diffusion. The event duration, width and signal mass dependence on the total quantity of released Ca2+ is determined at different orientations of the scan line and different ionic currents. Excellent agreement with published data is obtained with on- and off-rate constants of the fluorescent indicator of 15 microM(-1) s(-1) and 2.55 s(-1), respectively. It is found that one signal mass unit, calculated with the classical method that assumes spherical symmetry of the cytosolic space surrounding the release site, corresponds to 0.189 fC of released Ca2+ in the presence of a tubular network. It is estimated that release Ca2+ currents and amounts are randomly distributed, with averages of 0.165 pA and 3.66 fC per event and average release duration of 22.2 ms. The total quantity of liberated Ca2+ and the release current amplitude in the presence of endoplasmic reticulum tubules is predicted to be about one order of magnitude lower than estimated within the isotropic diffusion formalism. This could have implications in muscle cell Ca2+ imaging as well.


Assuntos
Sinalização do Cálcio/fisiologia , Cálcio/metabolismo , Retículo Endoplasmático , Animais , Retículo Endoplasmático/metabolismo , Retículo Endoplasmático/ultraestrutura , Corantes Fluorescentes/metabolismo , Matemática , Modelos Teóricos , Oócitos/citologia , Oócitos/fisiologia , Xenopus laevis
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Biophys J ; 89(2): 979-98, 2005 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15908571

RESUMO

A large amount of data and observations on inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP(3)) binding to the IP(3) receptor/Ca(2+) channel, the steady-state activity of the channel, and its inactivation by IP(3) can be explained by assuming one activation and one inhibition module, both allosterically operated by Ca(2+), IP(3), and ATP, and one adaptation element, driven by IP(3), Ca(2+), and the interconversion between two possible conformations of the receptor. The adaptation module becomes completely insensitive to a second IP(3) pulse within 80 s. Observed kinetic responses are well reproduced if, in addition, two module open states are rendered inactive by the current charge carrier Mn(2+). The inactivation time constants are 59 s in the activation, and 0.75 s in the adaptation module. The in vivo open probability of the channel is predicted to be almost in coincidence with the behavior in lipid bilayers for IP(3) levels of 0.2 and 2 microM and one-order-higher at 0.02 microM IP(3), whereas at 180 microM IP(3) the maximal in vivo activity may be 2.5-orders higher than in bilayers and restricted to a narrower Ca(2+) domain (approximately 10 microM-wide versus approximately 100 microM-wide). IP(3) is likely to inhibit channel activity at < or =120 nM Ca(2+) in vivo.


Assuntos
Canais de Cálcio/química , Cálcio/química , Ativação do Canal Iônico , Bicamadas Lipídicas/química , Modelos Químicos , Modelos Moleculares , Receptores Citoplasmáticos e Nucleares/química , Sítios de Ligação , Canais de Cálcio/análise , Simulação por Computador , Receptores de Inositol 1,4,5-Trifosfato , Modelos Estatísticos , Movimento (Física) , Porosidade , Ligação Proteica , Conformação Proteica , Receptores Citoplasmáticos e Nucleares/análise , Relação Estrutura-Atividade
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Biophys J ; 84(3): 1470-85, 2003 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12609854

RESUMO

We propose here a unitary approach to the luminal and cytosolic control of calcium release. A minimal number of model elements that realistically describe different data sets are combined and adapted to correctly respond to various physiological constraints. We couple the kinetic properties of the inositol 1,4,5 trisphosphate receptor/calcium channel with the dynamics of Ca(2+) and K(+) in both the lumen and cytosol, and by using a detailed simulation approach, we propose that local (on a radial distance approximately 2 micro m) calcium oscillations in permeabilized cells are driven by the slow inactivation of channels organized in discrete clusters composed of between six and 15 channels. Moreover, the character of these oscillations is found to be extremely sensitive to K(+), so that the cytosolic and luminal calcium variations are in or out of phase if the store at equilibrium has tens or hundreds micro M Ca(2+), respectively, depending on the K(+) gradient across the reticulum membrane. Different patterns of calcium signals can be reproduced through variation of only a few parameters.


Assuntos
Canais de Cálcio/metabolismo , Sinalização do Cálcio/fisiologia , Cálcio/metabolismo , Retículo Endoplasmático/metabolismo , Modelos Biológicos , Potássio/química , Receptores Citoplasmáticos e Nucleares/metabolismo , Transporte Biológico Ativo , Simulação por Computador , Citosol/metabolismo , Homeostase/fisiologia , Receptores de Inositol 1,4,5-Trifosfato , Ativação do Canal Iônico/fisiologia , Modelos Químicos , Porosidade
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