锌7—与镉7—金属硫蛋白对羟自由基损伤大鼠红细胞膜保护作用的比较

用电子自旋共振自旋标记物氮氧自由基硬脂酸和马来酰亚胺标记大鼠红细胞膜脂和膜蛋白,测定膜脂流动性和膜蛋白构象改变,以硫代巴比妥酸法测定脂质过氧化产物丙二醛含量。结果表明,锌７－与镉７－金属硫蛋白对羟自由基引起的膜脂流劝性减低,脂质过氧化反应增强及膜蛋白构象及改变有明显的抑制作用,而且,前的作用明显强于后。     

锌_7-金属硫蛋白与镉_7-金属硫蛋白抗羟自由基保护线粒体效应

制备了Ｚｎ７－与Ｃｄ７－金属硫蛋白。分离出大鼠心肌线粒体。用电子自旋共振自旋标记方法测定线粒体膜脂流动性及膜蛋白构象、运动性。分析了线粒体Ｃａ２＋－Ｍｇ２＋－ＡＴＰ酶活性及４５Ｃａ摄入。羟自由基损伤使线粒体膜脂流动性下降,膜蛋白构象改变及运动性降低,线粒体Ｃａ２＋－Ｍｇ２＋－ＡＴＰ酶活性降低及４５Ｃａ摄入活性下降。Ｚｎ７－金属硫蛋白与Ｃｄ７－金属硫蛋白均有抗羟自由基、保护心肌线粒体的作用,且Ｚｎ７－金属硫蛋白的作用比Ｃｄ７－金属硫蛋白的作用更明显。原因是去金属蛋白对Ｃｄ２＋的亲和力比对Ｚｎ２＋高１００００倍,因而在近ｐＨ中性的环境中,Ｚｎ７－金属硫蛋白将释放更多Ｚｎ２＋,并暴露较多的还原态巯基。     

锌7—金属硫蛋白与镉7—金属硫蛋白抗羟自由基保护线粒 …

制备了Ｚｎ７－与Ｃｄ７－金属硫蛋白。分离出大鼠心肌线粒体。用电子自旋共振自旋标记方法测定线粒体膜脂流动性及膜蛋白构象,运动性,分析了线粒体Ｃａ＾２＋－Ｍｇ６２＋－ＭＡＴＰ酶活性及＾４５Ｃａ摄入。羟自由基损伤使线粒体膜脂流动性下降,膜蛋白构象改变及运动性降低,线粒体Ｃａ＾２＋－Ｍｇ＾２＋ＡＴＰ酶活性降低及＾４５Ｃａ的摄入活性下降。     

金属硫蛋白抗内皮素损伤膜蛋白的电子顺磁共振自旋标记研究

以大鼠红细胞膜为研究对象,以脂肪酸自旋标记物５ＮＳ,１６ＮＳ插入膜脂,蛋白自旋标记物ＭＳＬ标记膜蛋白,观察内皮素（ＥＴ）损伤后膜脂流动性、膜蛋白构象的变化及金属硫蛋白（ＭＴ）抗ＥＴ保护生物膜作用。结果表明ＥＴ（１×１０－９,１０－８及１０－７ｍｏｌ／Ｌ）对膜脂流动性无明显影响,但在５×１０－９及１×１０－７ｍｏｌ／Ｌ浓度下均改变膜蛋白构象,而且对膜蛋白构象的影响呈剂量依赖性。１×１０－５ｍｏｌ／ＬＭＴ能抵抗５×１０－９ｍｏｌ／ＬＥＴ对膜蛋白损伤,保护生物膜。     

金属硫蛋白对大鼠红细胞膜受羟自由基损伤保护作用的自旋标记—ESR研究

用自旋标记物5NS,16NS及MSL分别插入红细胞膜脂及标记膜蛋白,发现金属硫蛋白(10~(-5)mol/L)对羟自由基引起的膜运动性减弱和膜蛋白构象改变有明显抑制作用,说明金属硫蛋白对大鼠红细胞膜的羟自由基损伤有保护作用,并且,对于低剂量的羟自由基损伤,保护作用更为明显。     

大脑皮层神经元膜蛋白构象改变的ESR研究

采用马来酰亚胺标记完整的大脑皮层细胞,观察由低氧引起的ESR谱线的变化及脑细胞脂质过氧化程度,低氧引起细胞过氧化物生成增加,膜蛋白构象改变．金属硫蛋白(10^-5mol/L)能明显抑制过氧化反应,具有一定的抗氧化作用．并对实验的分子机理进行了简要的讨论．     

金属硫蛋白对大鼠红细胞膜受羟自由基损伤保护作用的自旋标记—ESR研究

用自旋标记物5NS,16NS及MSL分别插入红细胞膜脂及标记膜蛋白,发现金属硫蛋白(10~(-5)mol/L)对羟自由基引起的膜运动性减弱和膜蛋白构象改变有明显抑制作用,说明金属硫蛋白对大鼠红细胞膜的羟自由基损伤有保护作用,并且,对于低剂量的羟自由基损伤,保护作用更为明显。     

锌_7与镉_7－金属硫蛋白清除羟自由基的比较

分离及纯化兔肝金属硫蛋白制备去金属金属硫蛋白、锌７与镉７金属硫蛋白．在不同ｐＨ条件下,比较后二者清除羟自由基能力;在ｐＨ６条件下,比较锌７－金属硫蛋白与有关蛋白和无机锌盐清除羟自由基效果．结论是在近生理ｐＨ条件下锌７－金属硫蛋白清除羟自由基能力远强于镉７－金属硫蛋白．金属硫蛋白清除羟自由基的能力主要来源于蛋白中处于还原态的流基．     

梗阻性高胆红素血症红细胞膜成分与结构的相关性研究

为进一步证明梗阻性高胆红素血症对细胞膜的损伤作用,探讨胆红素的毒性机理,我们采用毛细管电泳,圆二色谱,质谱,荧光偏振等方法,研究了红细胞膜蛋白的组成及膜的构象关系,结合膜脂的变化情况,反映了梗阻性高胆红素血症时红细胞膜的成分受到明显的影响,膜脂发生脂质过氧化、膜蛋白被氧化性降解,破坏了细胞骨架,使细胞膜的正常结构被破坏,膜流动性增大、膜稳定性下降,从而细胞不能维持其正常的生物功能。     

脂质过氧化对人红细胞膜脂流动性的影响

研究枯稀过氧化氢/高铁血红素体系所产生的烷基过氧自由基对红细胞的损伤。测定了脂质过氧化的产物——丙二脂的生成,并证明阿魏酸钠对脂质过氧化的抑制。荧光偏振的结果指出,膜脂过氧化以后降低了膜脂的流动性。人红细胞用5DSA和16DSA标记并用ESR检测膜脂流动性,结果表明,序参数S几乎没有发生变化,旋转相关时间τ值的增加证明膜脂过氧化以后,疏水尾部的物理状态发生了改变。经脂质过氧化以后,红细胞膜中的不饱和脂防酸的减少,可能是降低膜脂流动性的原因之一。     

Effects of pH on membrane fluidity of human erythrocytes

The effects of pH on the membrane fluidity of intact human erythrocytes, ghosts, and their lipid vesicles were studied by spin label techniques in the range of pH 3.0 to 9.1. Two fatty acid spin labels, 5-nitroxide stearic acid (5NS) and 12-nitroxide stearic acid (12NS), and a maleimide spin label were used for the labeling of the membrane lipids and proteins, respectively. The outer hyperfine splitting (T parallel) was measured as a parameter of membrane fluidity. In the case of 5NS, the T parallel values for intact erythrocytes and ghosts remained almost constant over the entire pH range at 22 degrees C but those for their lipid vesicles changed slightly, indicating the vertical displacement of the labels in lipid bilayers. On the other hand, the ESR spectra of 12NS incorporated into intact erythrocytes and ghosts, as compared with their lipid vesicles, showed marked pH dependence. By means of spin labeling of membrane proteins, the conformational changes of the proteins were observed in the pH range mentioned above. These results suggest a possible association between the strong pH dependence of the T parallel values and the conformation changes of membrane proteins. The pH dependence of the membrane fluidity was also investigated in cholesterol-enriched and -depleted erythrocytes. The effects of cholesterol demonstrated that the membrane fluidity was significantly mediated by cholesterol at low pH, but not at high pH.     

温石棉对人红细胞膜脂质及蛋白质影响的ESR研究

用５ＮＳ、１６ＮＳ及ＭＳＬ标记人红细胞膜,观察了茫崖及涞温源石棉对膜脂质及蛋白质的影响。结果表明,两种温石棉均可增加膜表面层及深层脂质刚性,即致膜表、深层脂质流动性降低;同时可改变膜蛋白构象。两种温石棉时膜脂质及蛋白质的影响强度与其剂量有关。经柠檬酸铝处理后,温石棉的上述作用明显减弱。     

Alcohols inhibit adipocyte basal and insulin-stimulated glucose uptake and increase the membrane lipid fluidity

Benzyl alcohol and ethanol, at aqueous concentrations that cause local anesthesia of rat sciatic nerve, affect structural and functional properties of rat adipocytes. The data strongly suggest that structurally-intact membrane lipids are required for the proper cellular uptake of glucose and for the physiologic response of adipocytes to insulin. The structure of adipocyte membrane lipids was examined with the spin label method. Isolated adipocyte ‘ghost’ membranes were labeled with the 5-nitroxide stearate spin probe I(12,3). Order parameters that are sensitive to the fluidity of the lipid environment of the incorporated probe were calculated from ESR spectra of labeled membranes. Benzyl alcohol and ethanol dramatically increased the fluidity of the adipocyte ghost membrane, as indicated by decreases in the polarity-corrected order parameter S. This concentration-dependent fluidization commenced at approx. 10 mM benzyl alcohol and progressively increased at all higher concentrations tested (up to 107 mM). S decreased approx. 5.7% at 40 mM benzyl alcohol, a change in S comparable in magnitude to that induced by a 6°C increase in the incubation temperature. Benzyl alcohol and ethanol inhibited basal glucose uptake in adipocytes and uptake maximally stimulated by insulin. Temperature-induced increases in membrane fluidity, detected with 1(12,3), that closely paralleled the fluidity effects of alcohols were associated only with increases in basal and insulin-stimulated glucose uptake. The contention that the membrane lipid fluidity plays a role in insulin action needs further study.     

Comparative 113Cd-n.m.r. studies on rabbit 113Cd7-, (Zn1,Cd6)- and partially metal-depleted 113Cd6-metallothionein-2a.

Rabbit 113Cd7-metallothionein-2a (MT) contains two metal-thiolate clusters of three (cluster B) and four (cluster A) metal ions. The 113Cd-n.m.r. spectrum of 113Cd6-MT, isolated from 113Cd7-MT upon treatment with EDTA, is similar to that of 113Cd7-MT, but the cluster B resonances are lower in intensity, suggesting its co-operative metal depletion. (Zn1,113Cd6)-MT, formed upon addition of the Zn(II) ions to 113Cd6-MT, shows 113Cd-n.m.r. features characteristic of cluster B populations containing both Cd(II) and Zn(II) ions. The overall intensity gain of the mixed cluster B resonances per Cd as to those in 113Cd6- and 113Cd7-MT suggests a stabilization effect of the bound Zn(II) ions upon the previously established intramolecular 113Cd exchange within this cluster.     

Products of metal exchange reactions of metallothionein

Hepatic metallothionein (MT) isolated from Cd-exposed animals always contains Zn (2-3 mol/mol of protein) in addition to Cd (4-5 mol/mol of protein), and the two metals are distributed in a nonuniform, but reproducible, manner among the seven binding sites of the protein's two metal-thiolate clusters. Different methodologies of preparing rabbit liver Cd, Zn-MT in vitro were investigated to provide insight into why such a distinct mixture of mixed-metal clusters is produced in vivo and by what mechanism they form. 113Cd NMR spectra of the products of stepwise displacement of Zn2+ from Zn7-MT by 113Cd2+ show that Cd binding to the clusters is not cooperative (i.e., clusters containing exclusively Cd are not formed in preference to mixed-metal Cd, Zn clusters), there is no selective occupancy of one cluster before the other, and many clusters are produced with a nonnative metal distribution indicating that this pathway is probably not followed in vivo. In contrast, the surprising discovery was made that the native cluster compositions and their relative concentrations could be reproduced exactly by simply mixing together the appropriate amounts of Cd7-MT and Zn7-MT and allowing intermolecular metal exchange to occur. This heretofore unknown metal interchange reaction occurs readily, and the driving force appears to be the relative thermodynamic instability of three-metal clusters containing Cd. With this new insight into how Cd,Zn-MT is likely to be formed in vivo we are able for the first time to postulate rational explanations for previous observations regarding the response of hepatic Zn and metallothionein levels to Cd administration.     

Cadmium binding to metallothioneins. Domain specificity in reactions of alpha and beta fragments, apometallothionein, and zinc metallothionein with Cd2+

The cadmium-binding properties of rabbit liver Zn7-metallothionein (MT) 2 and apo-MT, rat liver apo-alpha MT and Zn4-alpha MT, and calf liver apo-beta MT, have been studied using circular dichroism (CD) and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopies. Both sets of spectra recorded during the titration of Zn7-MT 2 with Cd2+ exhibit a complicated pattern that is quite unexpected. Such behavior is not found at all in sets of spectra recorded during titrations of the apo-species (apo-MT, apo-alpha MT, and apo-beta MT), and is observed to a much lesser extent in the titration of Zn-alpha MT. Comparison between the band centers of the Cd-alpha MT and Cd-beta MT indicates that the CD spectrum of Cd7-MT is dominated by intensity from transitions that originate on Cd-S chromophores in the alpha domain, with little direct contribution from the beta domain. Analysis of the spectra recorded during titrations of Zn7-MT 2 with Cd2+ suggests: (i) that Cd2+ replaces Zn2+ in Zn7-MT isomorphously; (ii) that cadmium binds in a nonspecific, "distributed" manner across both domains; (iii) that cluster formation in the alpha domain only occurs after 4 mol eq of cadmium have been added and is indicated by the presence of a cluster-sensitive, CD spectral feature; (iv) that the characteristic derivative CD spectrum of native Cd4,Zn3-MT is only obtained from "synthetic" Cd4,Zn3-MT following a treatment cycle that allows the redistribution of cadmium into the alpha domain; warming the synthetic "native," Cd4,Zn3-MT, to 65 degrees C results in cadmium being preferentially bound in the alpha domain; and (v) Zn7-MT will bind Cd2+ quite normally at up to 65 degrees C but with greater specificity for the alpha domain compared with titrations carried out at 25 degrees C. These results suggest that the initial presence of zinc in both domains is an important factor in the lack of any domain specificity during cadmium binding to Zn-MT which contrasts the domain specific manner observed for cadmium binding to apo-MT.     

Alterations in human red blood cell membrane properties induced by the lipopolysaccharide from Proteus mirabilis S1959

The effect of lipopolysaccharide (LPS, endotoxin), isolated from Proteus mirabilis S1959 strain, on red blood cell (RBC) membranes in whole cells as well as on isolated membranes was studied. Lipid membrane fluidity, conformational state of membrane proteins and the osmotic fragility of RBCs were examined using electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and spectrophotometric method. Lipid membrane fluidity was determined using three spin-labeled fatty acids: 5-, 12- and 16-doxylstearic acid (5-, 12- and 16-DS). The addition of LPS S1959 to RBC suspension resulted in an increase in membrane fluidity, as indicated by 12-DS. At the concentrations of 0.5 and 1 mg/ml, LPS treatment led to a significant (P<0.05) increase in lipid membrane fluidity in the deeper region of lipid bilayer (determined by 12-DS). The conformational changes in membrane proteins were determined using two covalently bound spin labels, 4-maleimido-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl and 4-iodoacetamido-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl (ISL). The highest concentration of endotoxin significantly (P<0.05) decreased the relative rotational correlation time of ISL and significantly (P<0.05) increased the osmotic fragility of RBCs. The effect of endotoxin was much more profound in isolated membranes than in intact cells treated with LPS. At the concentrations 0.5 and 1 mg/ml, LPS led to a significant increase in h(w)/h(s) ratio. These results indicated increased membrane protein mobility, mainly in the spectrin-actin complex in membrane cytoskeleton. These data suggest that LPS-induced alterations in membrane lipids and cytoskeleton proteins of RBCs lead to loss of membrane integrity.     

Physical properties of the lipid bilayer membrane made of calf lens lipids: EPR spin labeling studies

The physical properties of a membrane derived from the total lipids of a calf lens were investigated using EPR spin labeling and were compared with the properties of membranes made of an equimolar 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoylphosphatidylcholine/cholesterol (POPC/Chol) mixture and of pure POPC. Conventional EPR spectra and saturation-recovery curves show that spin labels detect a single homogenous environment in all three membranes. Profiles of the order parameter, hydrophobicity, and oxygen transport parameter are practically identical in lens lipid and POPC/Chol membranes, but differ drastically from profiles in pure POPC membranes. In both lens lipid and POPC/Chol membranes, the lipids are strongly immobilized at all depths, which is in contrast to the high fluidity of the POPC membrane. Hydrophobicity and oxygen transport parameter profiles in lens lipid and POPC/Chol membranes have a rectangular shape with an abrupt change between the C9 and C10 positions, which is approximately where the steroid ring structure of cholesterol reaches into the membrane. At this position, hydrophobicity increases from the level of methanol to the level of hexane, and the oxygen transport parameter increases by a factor of 2-3. These profiles in POPC membranes are bell-shaped. It is concluded that the high level of cholesterol in lens lipids makes the membrane stable, immobile, and impermeable to both polar and nonpolar molecules.     

Response of human blood platelet membrane to sodium selenite.

It was demonstrated that incubation of blood platelets with sodium selenite (1-100 microM) resulted in a dose- and time-dependent loss of platelet thiols (both glutathione and protein -SH groups). The effects of sodium selenite on platelet membrane lipid fluidity by the EPR spin-labelling method was also investigated. We showed there were no alterations in membrane fluidity at the deeper regions (12-DOXYL-Ste) in lipid bilayer, a slight increase (approx. 7%, p < 0.03) of h +1/h0 for spin probe 5-DOXYL-Ste was monitored. The amount of Triton-insoluble protein fraction isolated from platelets after incubation (60 min) with selenite was significantly elevated (p < 0.006). It has been suggested that limited increase in lipid fluidity at the surface regions in the lipid bilayer of the platelet membrane in selenite-treated platelets may be the result of alteration in lipid-protein interactions caused by protein conformational changes.