Efficient targeting of adenoviral vectors to integrin positive vascular cells utilizing a CAR-cyclic RGD linker protein

Vascular smooth muscle (VSMC) and endothelial cells (EC) are particularly resistant to infection by type 5 adenovirus (Ad) vectors. To overcome this limitation and target Ad vectors to ubiquitously expressed α Vβ3/5 integrins, we have generated a linker protein consisting of the extracellular domain of the coxsackie adenovirus receptor (CAR)...

Inhibition of zaleplon metabolism by cimetidine in the human liver: In vitro studies with subcellular fractions and precision-cut liver slices

The effect of cimetidine on the metabolism of zaleplon (ZAL) in human liver subcellular fractions and precision-cut liver slices was investigated. 2. ZAL was metabolized to a number of products including 5-oxo-ZAL (M2), which is known to be formed by aldehyde oxidase, N-desethyl-ZAL (DZAL), which is known to be formed by CYP3A forms, and N...

Subcellular differences in post-translational modification of barley 14-3-3 proteins

Expression and post-translational modification of barley 14-3-3 isoforms, 14-3-3A, 14-3-3B and 14-3-3C, were investigated using isoform-specific antibodies. Although all three isoforms were shown to be present in the cytosolic, the nuclear and the microsomal cell fractions, differences in post-translational modification were identified for the...

Tissue factor pathway inhibitor in endothelial cells colocalizes with glycolipid microdomains/caveolae: Regulatory mechanism(s) of the anticoagulant properties of the endothelium

Tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI), the main downregulator of the procoagulant activity of tissue factor·factor VIIa complex, locates in human endothelial cells (EC) in culture as well-defined clusters uniformly distributed both on the cell surface and intracellularly. We here demonstrate by immunofluorescence that TFPI colocalizes in EC...

Low-density lipoproteins are degraded in HepG2 cells with low efficiency

In previous studies we have shown that in HepG2 cells, as compared with fibroblasts, the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor is only weakly down-regulated upon incubation of the cells with LDL. To explain this difference in down-regulation of the LDL-receptor activity, we studied simultaneously the intracellular processing of 125I-labelled...

The role of fibroblastoid cells and macrophages from mouse bone marrow in the in vitro growth promotion of haemopoietic tumour cells

Adherent cells from mouse bone marrow have been shown to promote the in vitro growth of the AVRij-1 tumour cell line. The experiments presented here suggest that the adherent cells involved in this phenomenon are the progeny of bone marrow derived fibroblastoid colony forming units. The latter were characterized by means of cell density...

Subcellular localization of newly formed [3H]acetylcholine in rat cerebral cortex in vitro

Slices from rat brain cortex were incubated for either 5 or 60 min in a medium containing [3H]choline and 4.7 or 25 mM KCl. Bioassayable ACh and labelled ACh were determined in the incubation medium, in the total tissue homogenate and in subcellular fractions. Raising the KCl concentration from 4.7 to 25 mM stimulated the release and synthesis...