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Protein Kinase Balpha(PKBalpha, or Akt1) is believed to play a crucial role in programmed cell death, cancer progression and the insulin-signaling cascade. The protein is activated by phosphorylation at multiple sites and subsequently phosphorylates and activates eNOS. Free cysteine residues of the protein may capture reactive, endogenously produced nitric oxide (NO) as S-nitrosothiols. Site-specific detection of S-nitrosylated cysteine residues, usually at low stoichiometry, has been a major challenge in proteomic research largely due to the lack of mass marker for S-nitrosothiols that are very labile under physiologic conditions. In this report we describe a sensitive and specific MS method for detection of S-nitrosothiols in PKB alpha/Akt1 in rat soleus muscle. PKB alpha/Akt1 was isolated by immunoprecipitation and 2D-gel electrophoresis, subjected to in-gel tryptic digestion, and cysteinyl nitrosothiols were reacted with iodoacetic acids [2-C(12)/C(13) = 50/50] under ascorbate reduction conditions. This resulted in the production of relatively stable carboxymethylcysteine (CMC) immonium ions (m/z 134.019 and m/z 135.019) within a narrow argon collision energy (CE = 30 +/- 5 V) in the high MS noise region. In addition, free and disulfide-linked cysteine residues were converted to carboxyamidomethylcysteines (CAM). Tryptic S-nitrosylated parent ion was detected with a mass accuracy of 50 mDa for the two CMC immonium ions at the triggered elution time during capillary liquid chromatography (LC) separation. A peptide containing Cys(296) was discriminated from four co-eluting tryptic peptides under lock mass conditions (m/z 785.8426). S-nitrosothiol in the tryptic peptide, ITDFGLBKEGIK (B: CAM, [M + 2H](2+) = 690.86, Found: 690.83), is believed to be present at a very low level, since the threshold for the CMC immonium trigger ions was set at 3 counts/s in the MS survey. The high levels of NO that are produced under stress conditions may result in increased S-nitrosylation of Cys(296) which blocks disulfide bond formation between Cys(296) and Cys(310) and suppresses the biological effects of PKB alpha/Akt1. With the procedures developed here, this process can be studied under physiological and pathological conditions. 相似文献
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J. Clark H. K. Tompkins M. Höhnel C. Glaser O. Kassner S. Rideal H. J. Bult und Rossel 《Fresenius' Journal of Analytical Chemistry》1895,34(1):593-598
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Tompkins EM Farmer PB Lamb JH Jukes R Dingley K Ubick E Turteltaub KW Martin EA Brown K 《Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM》2006,20(5):883-891
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is currently one of the most sensitive methods available for the trace detection of DNA adducts and is particularly valuable for measuring adducts in humans or animal models. However, the standard approach requires administration of a radiolabeled compound. As an alternative, we have developed a preliminary 14C-postlabeling assay for detection of the highly mutagenic O6-methyldeoxyguanosine (O6-MedG), by AMS. Procedures were developed for derivatising O6-MedG using unlabeled acetic anhydride. Using conventional liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) analysis, the limit of detection (LOD) for the major product, triacetylated O6-MedG, was 10 fmol. On reaction of O6-MedG with 14C-acetic anhydride, using a specially designed enclosed system, the predominant product was 14C-di-acetyl O6-MedG. This change in reaction profile was due to a modification of the reaction procedure, introduced as a necessary safety precaution. The LOD for 14C-di-acetyl O6-MedG by AMS was determined as 79 amol, approximately 18,000-fold lower than that achievable by liquid scintillation counting (LSC). Although the assay has so far only been carried out with labeled standards, the degree of sensitivity obtained illustrates the potential of this assay for measuring O6-MedG levels in humans. 相似文献
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Effect of flow and surface conditions on human lymphocyte isolation using microfluidic chambers 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Murthy SK Sin A Tompkins RG Toner M 《Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids》2004,20(26):11649-11655
Phenotypically pure subpopulations of lymphocytes can provide valuable insights into the immune response to injury and disease. The isolation of these subpopulations presents unique challenges, particularly when preprocessing incubation to attach fluorescent or antibody tags is to be minimized. This paper examines the separation of T and B lymphocytes from mixtures using microfluidic chambers coated with antibodies, focusing on flow conditions and surface chemistry. The adhesion of both cell types decreases as shear stress increases irrespective of the surface chemistry. The incorporation of poly(ethylene glycol) chains along with the antibodies on the chamber surface is shown to significantly improve the reproducibility of cell adhesion and is thus an important part of the overall system design. Furthermore, this technique is shown to be an effective way of isolating highly pure subpopulations of lymphocytes from model mixtures, even when the target cell concentration is low. 相似文献
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ter Steege DH Smits M de Lange CA Westwood NP Peel JB Visscher L 《Faraday discussions》2000,(115):259-69; discussion 303-30
A (2 + 1) one-colour resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionisation study is carried out on the C 2 sigma- state of the ClO radical in the one-photon energy range 29,500-31,250 cm-1. The ClO radical is produced by one-photon photolysis of ClO2 employing 359.2 nm photons derived from a separate laser. In this way a significant concentration of vibrationally excited ClO in its spin-orbit split X 2 pi omega (omega = 3/2 or 1/2) electronic ground state is produced. In addition to mass-resolved excitation spectra, kinetic-energy resolved photoelectron spectra for the X 3 sigma-(v+)<--C 2 sigma-(v' = 3-5) transitions are measured. These transitions are not completely Frank-Condon diagonal, and indicate a decrease in bond length on removal of the Rydberg electron from the C 2 sigma- state. In addition to an unambiguous assignment of the C 2 sigma- state, valuable information is obtained on the degree of vibrational excitation with which the nascent ClO radical is formed in the photolysis of ClO2. Analysis of the photoelectron spectra is supported by Franck-Condon calculations based on potential energy curves either from experimental spectroscopic parameters, or obtained by theoretical ab initio methods. 相似文献
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G.T. Adylov F.K. Aliev D.Yu. Bardin W. Gajewski I. Ion B.A. Kulakov G.V. Micelmacher B. Niczyporuk T.S. Nigmanov E.N. Tsyganov M. Turala A.S. Vodopianov K. Wala E. Dally D. Drickey A. Liberman P. Shepard J. Tompkins J. Poirier 《Physics letters. [Part B]》1974,51(4):402-406
The pion radius has been measured by direct scattering of 50 GeV negative pions from stationary electrons in a hydrogen target. We find the square of the radius to be 〈rπ2〉 = (0.61 ± 0.15)fm2. 相似文献
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The design, fabrication, and testing of photoelastic models of double-lap, multiple-pin connectors are discussed. Interest
is in the stresses in the inner laps. These stresses are determined by constructing models with photoelastic inner laps and
transparent-acrylic outer laps. The connectors have two pins, in tandem, parallel to the load direction. A photoelastic-isotropic
point is shown to permit the evaluation of load sharing between the two pins. A numerical scheme, utilizing the isochromatic-
and isoclinic-photoelastic data and a finite-difference representation of the planestress equilibrium equations, is used to
compute the stresses around the two pins. Representative stress distributions and stress-concentration factors are shown. 相似文献
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Tompkins EM Jones DJ Lamb JH Marsden DA Farmer PB Brown K 《Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM》2008,22(1):19-28
A method has been developed for the simultaneous detection and quantitation of five different 2-hydroxyethyl-DNA (HE-DNA) adducts that could be formed as a result of exposure to ethylene oxide (EO). In addition to the major N7-HE-guanine (N7-HEG) adducts this assay can also measure the less prevalent but potentially more biologically significant N1-HE-2'-deoxyadenosine (N1-HEdA), O(6)-HE-2'-deoxyguanosine (O(6)-HEdG), N(6)-HE-2'-deoxyadenosine (N(6)-HEdA) and N3-HE-2'-deoxyuridine adducts (N3-HEdU). The method involves the isolation of HE adducts from the unmodified nucleosides by either neutral thermal hydrolysis or enzymatic digestion, followed by high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) purification, before detection and quantification by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) using selective reaction monitoring (SRM). The limits of detection were in the range 0.5-25 fmol for each individual adduct, making this one of the most sensitive assays available for the detection of N7-HEG. To illustrate the possible applications of the assay, it has been employed in the measurement of endogenous/background and EO-induced HE adducts in a variety of DNA samples. 相似文献
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Catherine Paradis-Bleau Adrian Lloyd François Sanschagrin Tom Clarke Ann Blewett Timothy DH Bugg Roger C Levesque 《BMC biochemistry》2008,9(1):33