Human plasma

Carvedilol is a pharmaceutical substance listed in the “Regulatory requirements of bioequivalence study reports for generic drugs containing APIs upon applying for marketing authorization”. Therefore, a simple method for quantifying carvedilol in human plasma is desirable.

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Metformin is an oral antidiabetic drug from the biguanide class and it is the first-line drug chosen for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. This is a drug on the list of pharmaceutical substances required to report bioequivalence study data when registering the drug. Objectives: (1) To develope a capillary zone electrophoresis method for determining metformin hydrochloride in human plasma. (2) To validate the method.

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The effect of the extracellular chaperone, clusterin, on amyloid fibril formation by lipid-free human apolipoprotein C-II (apoC-II) was investigated. Sub-stoichiometric levels of clusterin, derived from either plasma or semen, potently inhibit amyloid formation by apoC-II. Inhibition is dependent on apoC-II concentration, with more effective inhibition by clusterin observed at lower concentrations of apoC-II. The average sedimentation coefficient of apoC-II fibrils formed from apoC-II (0.3 mgÆmL)1) is reduced by coincubation with clusterin (10 lgÆmL)1). ...

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Selenoprotein P (SeP) is a plasma protein that contains up to 10 selenocysteine residues and accounts for about 50% of total selenium in human plasma. We have previously shown that SeP expression in the human liver cell line HepG2 is inhibited by transforming growth factor (TGF)-b1 on a transcriptional level. Smad proteins are the transcriptional mediators of TGF-b signalling and putative Smad-binding elements (SBE) comprising the core sequence CAGACA are present at two positions in the SeP promoter....

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Murine pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) cDNA encoding a 1545 amino-acid protein has been cloned. We have also identified and cloned cDNA that encodes a novel variant of PAPP-A, PAPP-Ai, carrying a 29-residue highly basic insert. The point of insertion corresponds to a junction between two exons in the human PAPP-A gene. The human intron flanked by these exons does not encode a homologous corresponding insert, which is unique to the mouse.

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Subunits (a, b and c) of the interleukin-2 receptor complex (IL-2R) are involved in both proliferative and activationinduced cell death (AICD) signaling of T cells. In addition, the signaling b and c chains are shared by other cytokines (e.g. IL-7, IL-9, IL-15). However, the molecular mechanisms responsible for recruiting/sorting the a chains to the signaling chains at the cell surface are not clear.

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The structure of post-translational modifications of human heparin cofactor II isolated from human serum and from recombinant Chinese hamster ovary cells and their effects on heparin binding have been characterized. Oligosaccharide chains were found attached to all three potential N-glycosylation sites in both protein preparations. The carbohydrate structures of heparin cofactor II circulating in blood are complex-type diantennary and triantennary chains in a ratio of 6 : 1 with the galactose being 90% sialylated with a2 fi 6 linked N-acetylneuraminic acid....

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Undifferentiated human promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells show little or no superoxide production, but generate a very low O2 – concentration upon incubation with all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA). Its production reaches a maximum within 20 h, and thereafter is maintained at an almost con-stant level. The differentiated cells show phorbol 12-myri-state 13-acetate (PMA)-stimulatedNADPHoxidase activity consistent with the amount of gp91phox(phagocytic oxid-ase) expressed in the plasma membrane.

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In addition to kallikrein hK3, a serine protease generally reported as PSA (prostate-speci®c antigen), at least two other enzymes in human seminal plasma also cleave syn-thetic peptidyl substrates derived from the sequence of human semenogelins. We have identi®ed one of these as prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), a major component of prostatic ¯uid whose physiological function is unclear.

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A high-affinity monoclonal antibody (M27), raised against the human thrombin–antithrombin complex, has been identifiedand characterized. The epitope recognizedbyM27 was located to the linear sequence FIREVP (residues 411– 416), located in the C-terminal cleavage peptide of anti-thrombin.This regionoverlaps, by two residues, theputative binding site of antithrombin for the serpin–enzyme complex receptor.

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It is well known that activated Factor XII (FXIIa) and kallikrein are rapidly inactivated in plasma as a result of reaction with endogenous inhibitors. The purpose of this may be to prevent uncontrolled deleterious spreading and activation of target zymogens. Both FXII and the complex plasma prekallikrein/high molecular mass kininogen become activated when they bind, in a Zn 2+ -dependent manner, to receptors on human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC).

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Complement regulator C4b-binding protein (C4BP) and the anticoagulant vitamin K-dependent protein S form a high affinity complexin human plasma. C4BP is composed of sevena-chains and a uniqueb-chain, each chain comprising repeating complement control protein (CCP) modules. The binding site for protein S mainly involves the first of the threeb-chain CCPs (CCP1). However, recently it has been suggested that CCP2 of theb-chain also contributes to the binding of proteinS.

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Novel antithrombin molecules were identified from the ixodidae tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis. These molecules, named madanin 1 and 2, are 7-kDa proteins and show no significant similarities to any previously identified proteins. Assays using human plasma showed that madanin 1 and 2 dose-dependently prolonged both activated partial throm-boplastin time and prothrombin time, indicating that they inhibit both the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways. Direct binding assay by surface plasmon resonance measurement demonstrated that madanin 1 and 2 specifically interacted with thrombin....

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Rogers syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder result-ing in megaloblastic anemia, diabetes mellitus, and sensori-neural deafness. The gene associated with this disease encodes for thiamine transporter 1 (THTR1), a member of the SLC19 solute carrier family including THTR2 and the reduced folate carrier (RFC). Using transient transfections into NIH3T3 cells of a D93H mutant THTR1derived from a Rogers syndrome family, we determined the expression, post-translational modification, plasma mem-brane targeting and thiamine transport activity.

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Sialidases are enzymes that influence cellular activity by removing terminal sialic acid from glycolipids and glycoproteins. Four genetically distinct sia-lidases have been identified in mammalian cells. In this study, we demon-strate that three of these sialidases, lysosomal Neu1 and Neu4 and plasma membrane-associated Neu3, are expressed in human monocytes.

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Gas1p is a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored plasma membrane glycoprotein ofSaccharomyces cerevisiaeand is a representative of Family GH72 of glycosidases/transgly-cosidases, which also includes proteins from human fungal pathogens. Gas1p, Phr1-2p from Candida albicansand Gel1p fromAspergillus fumigatushave been shown to be b-(1,3)-glucanosyltransferases required for proper cell wall assembly andmorphogenesis. Gas1p is organized into three modules: a catalytic domain; a cys-richdomain; andahighly O-glycosylated serine-rich region. ...

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It is now generally accepted that factor XII (FXII) binds to cellular surfaces in the vascular system. One of the suggested receptors of this binding is the glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored urokinase-like plasminogen activator (u-PAR) harbored in caveolae/lipid rafts. However, binding of FXII to human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) has never been shown to be localized to these specialized mem-brane structures. Using microscopical techniques, we here report that FXII binds to specific patches of the HUVEC plasma membrane with a high density of caveolae....

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Numerous transmembrane proteins, including the blood pressure regulating angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) and the Alzheimer’s disease amyloid precursor protein (APP), are proteolytically shed from the plasma membrane by metalloproteases. We have used an antisense oligo-nucleotide (ASO) approach to delineate the role of ADAM10 and tumour necrosis factor-aconverting enzyme (TACE;ADAM17) in theectodomainsheddingofACEand APP from human SH-SY5Y cells.

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Caveolae are plasma membrane invaginations with several functions, one of which appears to be to organize receptor mediated signalling. Here we report that in primary human subcutaneous adipocytes the insulin receptor was localized to caveolae by electron microscopy/immunogold detection and by isolating caveolae from plasma membranes.

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Homocysteine (Hcy) is anonprotein-forming sulphur amino acid that plays an important role in remethylation and trans-sulphuration processes. In recent years, it has been suggested that increased levels of plasma Hcy may play a role in the pathogenesis of various diseases, particularly at the cardiovascular level. The pathogenic mechanism of hyperhomocysteinemia, however, has not been clarified.

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