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1.
Adv Drug Deliv Rev ; 62(15): 1404-55, 2010 Dec 30.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20655344

RESUMO

This review presents the structure and physico-chemical properties of ECMPs, elastic-contractile model proteins using sparse design modifications of elastic (GVGVP)(n); it describes the capacity of ECMP to perform the energy conversions that sustain living organisms; it arrives at the hydration thermodynamics of ECMP in terms of the change in Gibbs free energy of hydrophobic association, ΔG(HA), and the apolar-polar repulsive free energy of hydration, ΔG(ap); it applies ΔG(HA), ΔG(ap), and the nature of elasticity to describe the function of basic diverse proteins, namely - the F1-motor of ATP synthase, Complex III of mitochondria, the KscA potassium-channel, and the molecular chaperonin, GroEL/ES; it applies ΔG(HA) and ΔG(ap) to describe the function of ABC exporter proteins that confer multi-drug resistance (MDR) on micro-organisms and human carcinomas and suggests drug modifications with which to overcome MDR. Using ECMP, means are demonstrated, for quantifying drug hydrophobicity with which to combat MDR and for preparing ECMP drug delivery nanoparticles, ECMPddnp, decorated with synthetic antigen-binding fragments, Fab1 and Fab2, with which to target specific up-regulated receptors, characteristic of human carcinoma cells, for binding and localized drug release.


Assuntos
Proteínas Contráteis/administração & dosagem , Proteínas Contráteis/química , Desenho de Fármacos , Animais , Físico-Química , Sistemas de Liberação de Medicamentos , Elasticidade , Humanos , Modelos Moleculares
2.
Curr Pharm Des ; 15(24): 2833-67, 2009.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19689353

RESUMO

The mechanism is presented whereby simultaneous hydrolysis of two molecules of ATP in the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) exporter protein, Sav 1866, opens a transmembrane channel to pump drug out of the cell and confers drug resistance, e.g., gives rise to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA. The proposed mechanism suggests pharmaceutical design strategies for overloading the capacity of two molecules of ATP to open access to the channel for export. Structural homology of Staphylococcus aureus, Sav 1866, to human P-glyco-protein and MRP2, suggests a similar mechanism could be relevant to human carcinoma cells. The transport mechanism utilizes two thermodynamic quantities -DeltaG(HA), the change in Gibbs free energy for hydrophobic association, and DeltaG(ap), an apolar-polar repulsive free energy for hydration, derived from studies on designed elastic-contractile model proteins (ECMPs). These quantities also allow design of remarkably biocompatible ECMPs as drug delivery vehicles with remarkable control of release profiles and of ECMPs that provide the means of developing pharmaceuticals for blocking multi-drug resistance.


Assuntos
Transportadores de Cassetes de Ligação de ATP/fisiologia , Sistemas de Liberação de Medicamentos , Desenho de Fármacos , Proteínas/química , Termodinâmica , Transportadores de Cassetes de Ligação de ATP/química , Animais , Cisplatino/farmacologia , Resistencia a Medicamentos Antineoplásicos , Elasticidade , Humanos , Interações Hidrofóbicas e Hidrofílicas , Teste de Materiais , Conformação Molecular , Proteína 2 Associada à Farmacorresistência Múltipla , Proteínas Associadas à Resistência a Múltiplos Medicamentos/química , Solubilidade
3.
Biomacromolecules ; 8(2): 354-8, 2007 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17291058

RESUMO

TMDSC data have been employed to observe the effect of NaCl on the inverse temperature transition of the model elastin-like polymer (GVGVP)251. NaCl causes a decrease in Tt and an increase in DeltaH. The increase in enthalpy appears both in the enthalpy related with the folding of the polymer and in the contribution associated with disruption of the structured water of hydrophobic hydration. It has been suggested that the presence of NaCl may cause a better formation of water structures surrounding the apolar polymer chains.


Assuntos
Elastina/química , Transição de Fase , Polímeros/química , Temperatura , Interações Hidrofóbicas e Hidrofílicas , Cloreto de Sódio/química , Termodinâmica
4.
Drug Deliv ; 13(4): 253-9, 2006.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16766466

RESUMO

Protein-based polymers are water soluble at lower temperatures but undergo a phase transition with increasing temperature. The polymers' hydrophobicity controls the transition temperature and the free energy of its charged groups through an apolar-polar repulsive free energy of hydration, which drives the binding of charged drugs. Binding and release of phosphorothioates were obtained with polymers containing 1 lysine alone or coupled with 2 to 5 phenylalanines per 30 residues. Release rates from 4 to 64 nmol/ cm2/day were maintained constant for 8 to 2 weeks/mm, respectively. We demonstrated the ability of protein-based polymers to deliver nucleic acid based therapeutics with high programmability.


Assuntos
Oligonucleotídeos Antissenso/química , Fosfatos/química , Polímeros/química , Proteínas Recombinantes/química , Preparações de Ação Retardada , Lisina/química , Fenilalanina/química , Solubilidade , Relação Estrutura-Atividade , Temperatura de Transição
5.
Tissue Eng ; 12(2): 391-401, 2006 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16548697

RESUMO

Human amniotic epithelial (hAE) and mesenchymal (hAM) cells are believed to have the potential to differentiate into various functional cells, such as neurons, hepatocytes, cardiomyocytes, and pancreatic beta cells. However, cell transplantation has been performed by injection of cell suspensions, and thus it is difficult to control shape, size, location, and functions of differentiated cells. To overcome these problems, we developed a novel temperature-responsive culture surface coated with elastic protein-based polymer. By reducing the temperature using a polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membrane, the primary hAE and hAM cell sheet can detach from the coated surface. The recovered cell sheet can be transferred and can re-adhere and re-proliferate on another surface. This represents the first report of harvesting of primary hAE and hAM cell sheets using the novel temperature- responsive polymer. These findings suggest that this new technique of cell sheet detachment from noncytotoxic, highly biocompatible protein-based polymer-coated surfaces may be useful in tissue engineering, as well as in the investigation of hAE and hAM cell sheets for transplantation.


Assuntos
Âmnio/citologia , Polímeros/química , Proteínas/química , Temperatura , Apoptose , Adesão Celular , Técnicas de Cultura de Células , Proliferação de Células , Sobrevivência Celular , Células Cultivadas , Humanos , Membranas Artificiais , Polivinil/química , Propriedades de Superfície , Engenharia Tecidual/métodos
6.
Cell Biol Int ; 30(1): 44-55, 2006 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16378738

RESUMO

THESIS: Within the structurally-confined internal aqueous cavity of the F1-motor of ATP synthase, function results from free energy changes that shift the balance between interfacial charge hydration and interfacial hydrophobic hydration. TRANSITION STATE DESCRIPTION: At the beta-P end of ADP x Mg occurs an inorganic phosphate, P(i). This P(i) resides at the base of a water-filled cleft that functions like an aperture to focus, into an aqueous chamber, a competition for hydration (an apolar-polar repulsion) between charged phosphate and hydrophobic surface of the gamma-rotor. Two means available for the phosphate and the hydrophobic surface to improve their hydration free energies are physically to separate by rotation of the gamma-rotor or chemically to combine P(i) with ADP to form less charged ATP. This proposal derives from calculated changes in Gibbs free energy for hydrophobic association of amino acid side chains and chemical modifications thereof and from experimentally demonstrated water-mediated repulsion between hydrophobic and charged sites that resulted from extensive studies on designed elastic-contractile model proteins.


Assuntos
Interações Hidrofóbicas e Hidrofílicas , ATPases Mitocondriais Próton-Translocadoras/química , ATPases Translocadoras de Prótons/química , Água/fisiologia , Domínio Catalítico , Ligação de Hidrogênio , Concentração de Íons de Hidrogênio , Modelos Moleculares , Proteínas Motores Moleculares , Estrutura Quaternária de Proteína , Relação Estrutura-Atividade , Propriedades de Superfície , Torque
7.
Biopolymers ; 77(4): 198-204, 2005 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15666330

RESUMO

Tropoelastin is a complex polymeric protein composed primarily of repeating segments of Val-Pro-Gly-Gly, Val-Pro-Gly-Val-Gly, and Ala-Pro-Gly-Val-Gly-Val that occurs in connective tissue and arteries. It has rubber-like extensible properties. A synthetic cyclic dodecapeptide, with a double repeat of the hexapeptide sequence, has been shown to undergo a reversible inverse temperature transition; that is, crystals grow at 60 degrees C and dissolve in the mother liquor upon cooling. An x-ray crystal structure analysis established that the cyclic backbone formed an elongated loop with a Pro-Gly, type II beta turn at both ends. Six internal cross strand NH...OC hydrogen bonds form between six NH donors and four O=C acceptors where two of the carbonyl O atoms are bifurcated acceptors. As a result, the molecule is pulled up into a corrugated profile. The corrugated loops form extended beta-sheets by additional intermolecular hydrogen bonds. An analysis of the dome region in a corrugated sheet suggests a reversible mechanism for extending and contracting the length of the whole molecule, akin to the motion of opening and closing an umbrella, caused by the motion of a water molecule with its associated hydrogen bonds acting as spokes. Crystal parameters: C44H72N12O12.3H2O, sp. gr. P2(1)2(1)2(1), a = 9.212 angstroms, b = 19.055 angstroms, c = 32.247 angstroms, d = 1.157 g/cm3.


Assuntos
Elastina/química , Elastina/metabolismo , Oligopeptídeos/química , Oligopeptídeos/metabolismo , Cristalografia por Raios X , Ligação de Hidrogênio , Conformação Proteica , Relação Estrutura-Atividade
8.
Wound Repair Regen ; 12(4): 453-60, 2004.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15260811

RESUMO

A previous study showed that topical exposure to bioelastic-thromboxane synthetase inhibitor-matrix resulted in local tissue concentrations of thromboxane synthetase inhibitor sufficient for thromboxane synthetase inhibition. The objective of this research was to use an animal model to determine if a dressing having controlled release of thromboxane synthetase inhibitor (dazmegrel) could be used to prevent tissue breakdown over pressure points, i.e., lesion at the assistive device-skin interface. The animal model studies utilized the greyhound, a dog that has thin skin, angular conformation, limited body fat and is predisposed to pressure ulcers similar to those occurring in humans. The model uses a short-limb walking cast on one pelvic limb with the severity of the dermal pressure lesions induced over the medial malleolus controlled by the amount of padding in the cast and length of time the cast is in place. The bioelastic matrix loaded with dazmegrel provided protection from shearing and pressure skin injury over the medial malleolus, as evidenced by a decrease in epidermal abrasion/ulceration as measured with planimetry. Histopathologic evaluation of the skin over the medial malleolus indicated a protective function of the bioelastic matrix as measured as lower numbers of neutrophils, lymphocytes, and decreased collagen density compared to such numbers when no bioelastic matrix was present. These studies provided evidence that bioelastic-thromboxane sythetase inhibitor- matrix helps in preventing or reducing the severity of pressure lesions, e.g., assistive device-skin interface wounds.


Assuntos
Bandagens , Inibidores Enzimáticos/administração & dosagem , Imidazóis/administração & dosagem , Úlcera por Pressão/prevenção & controle , Tromboxano-A Sintase/antagonistas & inibidores , Administração Tópica , Animais , Cães , Elasticidade , Hiperemia/etiologia
9.
Int J Pharm ; 271(1-2): 301-3, 2004 Mar 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15129998

RESUMO

The penetration of dazmegrel, a selective thromboxane synthetase inhibitor, through excised human and greyhound skin was measured. A bioelastic matrix was used for topical delivery. Results demonstrated that dazmegrel readily penetrated the skin. Penetration through greyhound skin was significantly greater than penetration through human skin. Penetration through greyhound skin was not significantly different between 4, 24, and 48 h of exposure for the low and intermediate doses studied.


Assuntos
Inibidores Enzimáticos/farmacocinética , Imidazóis/farmacocinética , Absorção Cutânea , Animais , Cães , Humanos , Técnicas In Vitro , Permeabilidade
10.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) ; 28(15): 1659-65, 2003 Aug 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12897488

RESUMO

STUDY DESIGN: The use of elastic protein-based polymers for the prevention of epidural fibrosis following lumbar spine laminectomy was investigated in a rabbit model. OBJECTIVES: To determine the safety and efficacy of two bioelastic polymers in matrix and gel forms as interpositional materials in preventing postlaminectomy epidural fibrosis. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Postlaminectomy epidural fibrosis complicates revision spine surgery and is implicated in cases of "failed back syndrome." Materials employed as mechanical barriers to limit tethering of neural elements by the fibrosis tissue have met with little success. A recent family of protein-based polymers, previously reported to prevent postoperative scarring and adhesions, may hold promise in treating this condition. METHODS: Sixteen female New Zealand White rabbits underwent laminectomy at L4 and L6. Two polymer compositions, each in membrane and gel forms, were implanted at a randomly assigned level in four rabbits each, with the remaining level serving as an internal control. The animals were killed at 8 weeks, and qualitative and quantitative histology and gross pathologic examination were performed for both the control and the experimental sites to assess the polymers' efficacy in preventing dorsal epidural fibrosis. RESULTS: The use of the polymers caused no adverse effects. Compared to the control sites, both polymers in either gel or membrane form significantly reduced the formation of epidural fibrosis and its area of contact with the dura postlaminectomy. However, no significant difference in efficacy was detected between either the polymers or their respective forms in preventing epidural fibrosis. CONCLUSIONS: The selected compositions of biosynthetic, bioelastic polymers were safe and effective in the limiting the direct contact and consequent tethering of the underlying neural elements by the postlaminectomy epidural fibrosis in rabbits.


Assuntos
Materiais Biocompatíveis/farmacologia , Espaço Epidural/efeitos dos fármacos , Fibrose/prevenção & controle , Laminectomia/efeitos adversos , Polímeros/farmacologia , Coluna Vertebral/cirurgia , Animais , Materiais Biocompatíveis/efeitos adversos , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Avaliação Pré-Clínica de Medicamentos , Elasticidade , Espaço Epidural/patologia , Espaço Epidural/cirurgia , Feminino , Fibrose/patologia , Região Lombossacral , Teste de Materiais , Oligopeptídeos/farmacologia , Polímeros/efeitos adversos , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/etiologia , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/prevenção & controle , Coelhos , Segurança , Coluna Vertebral/patologia , Resultado do Tratamento
11.
J Biotechnol ; 93(3): 217-29, 2002 Feb 28.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11755986

RESUMO

Flow cytometry is an established tool in fundamental studies of single-cell microbial physiology. Here we show that it can also provide valuable information for process development. Using recombinant Escherichia coli strains, which express the protein-based polymer (GVGIP)(260)GVGVP, the utility of flow cytometry in monitoring and optimization of fermentations is demonstrated. Single cell right angle light scatter was found to be significantly affected by intracellular product formation possibly due to the formation of inclusion bodies. Translational fusions with green fluorescent protein (GFP) enabled monitoring of product accumulation, as well as plasmid free cell fraction (PFCF). Such fusions also allowed rapid evaluation of induction strategies and three different expression systems based on the T7 promoter, T7-lac promoter and the P(BAD) promoter. The expression system based on the P(BAD) promoter was found to be superior to the T7-based system.


Assuntos
Citometria de Fluxo/métodos , Arabinose/metabolismo , Reatores Biológicos/microbiologia , Escherichia coli/citologia , Escherichia coli/genética , Escherichia coli/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica , Vetores Genéticos/biossíntese , Vetores Genéticos/genética , Glicina/biossíntese , Glicina/genética , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde , Isoleucina/biossíntese , Isoleucina/genética , Proteínas Luminescentes/biossíntese , Proteínas Luminescentes/genética , Prolina/biossíntese , Prolina/genética , Sequências Repetitivas de Aminoácidos/genética , Projetos de Pesquisa , Espalhamento de Radiação , Valina/biossíntese , Valina/genética
12.
Ann N Y Acad Sci ; 195(1): 108-125, 1972 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29090750
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