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Endoplasmic Reticulum stress reduces COPII vesicle formation and modifies Sec23a cycling at ERESs

2013

AbstractExit from the Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) of newly synthesized proteins is mediated by COPII vesicles that bud from the ER at the ER Exit Sites (ERESs). Disruption of ER homeostasis causes accumulation of unfolded and misfolded proteins in the ER. This condition is referred to as ER stress. Previously, we demonstrated that ER stress rapidly impairs the formation of COPII vesicles. Here, we show that membrane association of COPII components, and in particular of Sec23a, is impaired by ER stress-inducing agents suggesting the existence of a dynamic interplay between protein folding and COPII assembly at the ER.

Incorporation of the [(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl) (2,2-bipyridyl)(aquo)rhodium(III)] complex into DPPC vesicles studied by a kinetic method

2008

Extracellular Vesicles and Tumor-Immune Escape: Biological Functions and Clinical Perspectives

2020

The modulation of the immune system is one of the hallmarks of cancer. It is now widely described that cancer cells are able to evade the immune response and thus establish immune tolerance. The exploration of the mechanisms underlying this ability of cancer cells has always attracted the scientific community and is the basis for the development of new promising cancer therapies. Recent evidence has highlighted how extracellular vesicles (EVs) represent a mechanism by which cancer cells promote immune escape by inducing phenotypic changes on different immune cell populations. In this review, we will discuss the recent findings on the role of tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (TEVs) in re…

Ekstracelulārās vezikulās ietvertās mikrobiālās RNS atklāšana cilvēku asins un urīna paraugos

2020

Gandrīz visi cilvēka šūnu tipi sekretē ekstracelulārās vezikulas (EVs), un tām ir svarīga loma starpšūnu komunikācijā. Jaunākie pētījumi liecina, ka komunikācija notiek arī starp cilvēka mikrobiotu un saimniekorganisma šūnām. Šajā pētījumā mēs parādām, ka no cilvēka asinīm un urīna izdalītās EVs satur RNS fragmentus no dažādiem mikroorganismiem. Visbiežāk sastopami baktēriju tipi un supertipi asinīs un urīnā bija Proteobacteria, PVC grupa un Terrabacteria. Lai noteiktu vai šo mikrobiālo transkriptu galvenais avots ir zarnu mikrobioms, mēs izstrādājām EV izdalīšanas metodi no cilvēku fēču paraugiem. Tālāk mēs plānojām veikt RNS sekvencēšanas (RNA-seq) analīzi EV, kas izdalītas no plazmas, ur…

Anti-Human CD9 Fab Fragment Antibody Blocks the Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Increase in Malignancy of Colon Cancer Cells.

2022

Intercellular communication between cancer cells themselves or with healthy cells in the tumor microenvironment and/or pre-metastatic sites plays an important role in cancer progression and metastasis. In addition to ligand–receptor signaling complexes, extracellular vesicles (EVs) are emerging as novel mediators of intercellular communication both in tissue homeostasis and in diseases such as cancer. EV-mediated transfer of molecular activities impacting morphological features and cell motility from highly metastatic SW620 cells to non-metastatic SW480 cells is a good in vitro example to illustrate the increased malignancy of colorectal cancer leading to its transformation and aggressive b…

TRANSPORTAN 10 INTERACTION WITH GIANT VESICLES: INSERTION EFFECTS AND PORE FORMATION

Transportan 10 (TP10) is a 21 residues peptide that belongs to the family of the antimicrobial and cytolytic or cytotoxic amphipathic peptides. It contains a high proportion of positively charged amino acids (four lysines), no negative charges and the N-terminus that impart it a formal +5 charge at neutral pH.1 This large number of positive charges is an essential feature for the electrostatic interaction of TP10 with microbial and tumoral membranes, which are characherized by a net negative charge and also by a higher fluidity if compared with mammalin ones.2 Here, combining spectroscopic and fluorescence lifetime imaging techniques, we analyse the fate of the multifunctional3-4 TP10 and i…

Transportan 10 Induces Perturbation and Pores Formation in Giant Plasma Membrane Vesicles Derived from Cancer Liver Cells

2023

Continuous progress has been made in the development of new molecules for therapeutic purposes. This is driven by the need to address several challenges such as molecular instability and biocompatibility, difficulties in crossing the plasma membrane, and the development of host resistance. In this context, cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) constitute a promising tool for the development of new therapies due to their intrinsic ability to deliver therapeutic molecules to cells and tissues. These short peptides have gained increasing attention for applications in drug delivery as well as for their antimicrobial and anticancer activity but the general rules regulating the events involved in cell…

Insights into catanionic vesicles thermal transition by NMR spectroscopy

2012

Oppositely charged ionic surfactants can self-assemble into hollow structures, called catanionic vesicles, where the anionic-cationic surfactant pair assumes a double-tailed zwitterionic attitude. In the present work, multilamellar- to-unilamellar thermal transition of a mixed aqueous system of sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) and cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB), with a slight excess of the anionic one, has been investigated by 1H, 2H, 14N NMR spectra and 23Na transverse relaxation measurements. It has been inferred that an increase of the temperature enhances the SDS counterion dissociation, which can be considered as one of the driving forces of the mentioned transition. Moreover, in…

Developing liver spheroids for elucidating the role of colorectal cancer-derived smallextracellular vesicles in the pre-metastatic niche formation

2022

Introduction: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common tumor in the world frequently associated with liver metastasiscausing unfavorable prognosis. A recent study performed in our laboratory has demonstrated that CRC small extracellular vesi-cles (SEVs) induce an epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) of hepatocytes (heps) driving them to actively participate inthe pre-metastatic niche formation, probably contributing to form a liver fibrotic microenvironment. Since 2D cell cultures par-tially reflect the structural complexity of the in vivo microenvironment to give more power to our functional model, we switchedto use hepatocyte spheroids (HeSPHs), which can give us more proper…

Huntingtin controls neurotrophic support and survival of neurons by enhancing BDNF vesicular transport along microtubules.

2004

AbstractPolyglutamine expansion (polyQ) in the protein huntingtin is pathogenic and responsible for the neuronal toxicity associated with Huntington's disease (HD). Although wild-type huntingtin possesses antiapoptotic properties, the relationship between the neuroprotective functions of huntingtin and pathogenesis of HD remains unclear. Here, we show that huntingtin specifically enhances vesicular transport of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) along microtubules. Huntingtin-mediated transport involves huntingtin-associated protein-1 (HAP1) and the p150Glued subunit of dynactin, an essential component of molecular motors. BDNF transport is attenuated both in the disease context and b…