Papers by Alexander Timoshenko
Biofizika
It has been shown that of active oxygen species regulate the activity of the processes of Con A e... more It has been shown that of active oxygen species regulate the activity of the processes of Con A endocytosis in rat thymus cells.
Tsitologiia
Changes of hydrogen ions activity in rat thymocytes were studied during the process of concanaval... more Changes of hydrogen ions activity in rat thymocytes were studied during the process of concanavalin A (Con A) endocytosis by cells. A possibility was shown to use fluoresceinisothiocyanate-labeled Con A for measuring pH values in the sites of mitogen localization. It is established that during the action of Con A endocytotic vesicles with low pH value are formed, while the pH value of the cytoplasm is increased. The pH value measured in the sites of mitogen localization depends on the treatment of cells by alpha-methyl-D-mannoside and sodium azide. Mechanisms of acidic-basic equilibrium changes in the cytoplasm of lymphocytes upon cell stimulation with mitogens are discussed.
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Molekuliarnaia genetika, mikrobiologiia i virusologiia
Human neutrophil aggregation induced by Escherichia coli K12 cells has been studied. D-mannose ha... more Human neutrophil aggregation induced by Escherichia coli K12 cells has been studied. D-mannose has been found to inhibit the process in the dose-dependent way causing the full blockage at 10 mM concentration. The process of disaggregation induced by the concentration is significantly higher at 10 degrees C than at 37 degrees C. The inhibitors of cellular oxygenation such as N-ethylmaleimide, nordihydroguaiaretic acid, trifluoperazine, and colchicine did not affect the aggregation process. Cellular aggregation was concomitant with production of H2O2, and this reaction was also blocked by D-mannose and depended on the number of bacteria present. The nordihydroguaiaretic acid and N-ethylmaleimide inhibited production of H2O2, while sodium azide enhanced the process. The results show the mannose-specific contact of bacteria and neutrophils to depend on the functional activity of phagocytes including their ability to produce H2O2.
Biofizika
Hyperthermia (45 degrees C) has found to decrease the rate of rat thymocytes as well as splenocyt... more Hyperthermia (45 degrees C) has found to decrease the rate of rat thymocytes as well as splenocytes aggregation induced by lectins (concanavalin A, wheat germ agglutinin) and sulphated polysaccharides (heparin, dextran sulphate-500) and to increase those induced by cationic dye alcian blue. Shedding of plasma membrane glycoproteins and changes of surface charge are supposed to affect the aggregation.
Biofizika
The effect of different concentration of concanavalin A on intracellular pH of rat thymocytes has... more The effect of different concentration of concanavalin A on intracellular pH of rat thymocytes has been studied by means of fluorescent probe 9-aminoacridine. It has been shown that the addition of mitogen to cells results in an increase of pH value inside the thymocytes. The value of pH changes depends on the concentration of concanavalin A.
Anticancer research
Galactose-specific lectin from Viscum album (VAA) was found to induce aggregation of human platel... more Galactose-specific lectin from Viscum album (VAA) was found to induce aggregation of human platelets in a dose- and sugar-dependent manner. Small nonaggregating concentrations of VAA primed the response of platelets to known aggregants (ADP, arachidonic acid, thrombin, ristocetin, and A23187). VAA-induced platelet aggregation was completely reversible by addition of the sugar inhibitor lactose and the platelets from disrupted aggregates maintained the response to other aggregants. The lectin-induced aggregation of washed platelets was more resistant to metabolic inhibitors than thrombin- or arachidonic acid-dependent cell interaction. In contrast to the related galactose-specific lectin from Ricinus communis and the soy bean agglutinin, the lectin did not aggregate liposomes prepared from total platelet lipids, indicating different affinities of aggregation-mediating lectins to platelet glycolipids.
Gematologiia i transfuziologiia
The effects of eight plant lectins on human neutrophils aggregation and H2O2 release were studied... more The effects of eight plant lectins on human neutrophils aggregation and H2O2 release were studied. Both processes were stimulated by lectins from Viscum album, Triticum vulgaris, Phaseolus vulgaris and Canavalia ensiformis while lectins from Solanum tuberosum, Sambucus nigra and Glycine mas displayed only aggregating activity and Arachis hypogaea lectin was not effective. Heating (46 degrees C) and UV-radiation during 4-5 min were found to suppress completely H2O2 release from neutrophils keeping the capacity of cells to be aggregated. The findings indicate that lectin-induced human neutrophils aggregation is necessary but not sufficient condition of respiratory burst of cells. The comparison of the aggregating activity of lectins with their ability to induce the H2O2 release is supposed to be the basis of screening of lectins with antitumor and immunomodulatory activity.
Ukrainskii biokhimicheskii zhurnal
Fluorescein mercury acetate (FMA), a fluorescent probe, is used for the investigation of SH-group... more Fluorescein mercury acetate (FMA), a fluorescent probe, is used for the investigation of SH-groups of thymocytes' plasma membrane. It is found that mitogenic lectin Con A decreases the amount of membrane SH-groups and increases the fluorescence polarization degree of FMA (PFMA). The value of PFMA increases also during the incubation of cells with potassium ferricyanide and H2O2 but it decreases in the presence of NADH. The analysis of the data permits a conclusion that the thymocyte activation by Con A results in the selective oxidation of certain SH-groups with the formation of disulphide cross-linking between the plasma membrane receptors bound with the lectin molecules.
Eksperimentalʹnai͡a onkologii͡a
It has been shown that hyperthermia (45 degrees C, 20-120 min) produces a number of changes in He... more It has been shown that hyperthermia (45 degrees C, 20-120 min) produces a number of changes in HeLa cells at the plasma membrane level: shedding of membrane glycoproteins; changes in the lectin-induced cell agglutination; the outflux from cells of substances with the nonspecific esterase activity.
Ukrainskii biokhimicheskii zhurnal
Data from literature concerning cell aggregation induced by various substances are considered. Th... more Data from literature concerning cell aggregation induced by various substances are considered. The biochemical nature of cell aggregation inducers, participation of membrane receptors in this process, biochemical aspects and practical significance of the cell aggregation process are discussed.
Biochemistry (Moscow)
The effects of alpha1-acidic glycoprotein (AGP) and its subfractions (glycoforms) with different ... more The effects of alpha1-acidic glycoprotein (AGP) and its subfractions (glycoforms) with different affinity for concanavalin A on generation of H2O2 by human neutrophils exposed to stimulators of different nature, namely, galactose-specific mistletoe (Viscum album) lectin (VAA), digitonin, and N-formyl-Met-Leu-Phe, a chemotactic peptide (FMLP), were studied. Within the concentration range of 13-500 microgram/ml, AGP and its glycoforms produced dose-dependent inhibition of digitonin-induced cell responses. AGP also inhibited the VAA-induced generation of H2O2; however, this cell response was potentiated by low concentrations (50 microgram/ml) of AGP and AGP-A. FMLP induced the most consistent response of neutrophils, which changed only slightly in the presence of AGP and AGP-B; however, low concentrations of AGP-A inhibited this response. The presence of sialic acid in the terminal position of carbohydrate antennae of AGP is not necessary for its inhibitory effect on human neutrophil respiratory burst because asialo-AGP (250 microgram/ml) inhibited H2O2 generation by cells stimulated with agonists of the NADPH-oxidase system of phagocytes. In contrast to AGP, two other acute phase response proteins displaying a lectin activity (C-reactive protein and serum amyloid P component) within the concentration range of 10-100 microgram/ml produced no significant effect on H2O2 generation by stimulated neutrophils. These data suggest that AGP is an effector molecule responsible for feedback regulation of the functional activity of neutrophils.
Vestnik otorinolaringologii
The content of circulating immune complexes (IC) interacting with plant lectins from Canavalia en... more The content of circulating immune complexes (IC) interacting with plant lectins from Canavalia ensiformis (Con A), phaseolus vulgaris (PHA) and wheat germ (WGA) was examined in blood plasma of healthy donors and patients with ENT diseases (n = 36). It was found that the level of PHA- and WGA-reactive IC in patients with laryngeal carcinoma was significantly higher than in control, whereas only the level of WGA-reactive IC was elevated in patients with scleroma. The level of ConA-reactive IC was statistically uniform in control and both ENT diseases.
Biochemistry (Moscow)
Human platelets afford a suitable and physiologically relevant model to study receptor-dependent ... more Human platelets afford a suitable and physiologically relevant model to study receptor-dependent cell aggregation and ensuing biosignaling reactions. Since cell surface glycoconjugates can serve as ligands in recognitive protein--carbohydrate interactions, it is of interest to investigate the reactivity of such epitopes for a plant lectin and the elicited intracellular responses. Therefore, the galactose-specific lectin (Viscum album agglutinin, VAA) was employed as a tool for this purpose. It was found that VAA induced platelet aggregation at a concentration of 2.5 microgram/ml using 2.5. 108 cells/ml, composed of the formation of both lactose-sensitive (Lac+) and lactose-resistant (Lac-) intercellular contacts. Lac- aggregates were formed only by metabolically active platelets of about 70% of the samples from the group of studied volunteers. The requirement of metabolic activity for formation of these contacts which no longer depend on lectin--ligand recognition was underscored by the lack of their appearance in the presence of metabolic inhibitors such as nordihydroguaiaretic acid, trifluoperazine, N-ethylmaleimide and menadione. With respect to biosignaling, the effective aggregation of platelets did not affect the basal level of Ca2+ in cells and reduced the rate of the menadione-dependent generation of H2O2. In parallel series platelet aggregation induced by bovine thrombin (0.03 U/ml) triggered an increase in the cytoplasmic Ca2+ level and an enhancement of the H2O2 generation. Overall, these results imply metabolically controlled post-binding reactions which strengthen the lectin-induced cell association and demonstrate differential responses with respect to the Ca2+ level and H2O2-generation between lectin- or thrombin-mediated aggregation of human platelets.
Anticancer research
The present study tested the hypothesis that the
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2015
Galectins, a family of soluble β-galactoside-binding proteins, serve as mediators of fundamental ... more Galectins, a family of soluble β-galactoside-binding proteins, serve as mediators of fundamental biological processes, such as cell growth, differentiation, adhesion, migration, survival, and death. The purpose of this review is to summarize the current knowledge regarding the ways in which the expression of individual galectins differs in normal and transformed human cells exposed to various stimuli mimicking physiological and pathological microenvironmental stress conditions. A conceptual point is being made and grounded that the modulation of galectin expression profiles is a key aspect of cellular stress responses. Moreover, this modulation might be precisely regulated at transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels in the context of non-overlapping transcription factors and miRNAs specific to galectins.
Phytochemicals – Biosynthesis, Function and Application, 2014
ABSTRACT
Methods in molecular medicine, 1998
The modulatory potency of lectins on cellular activities deserves attention from a cell biologica... more The modulatory potency of lectins on cellular activities deserves attention from a cell biological and a clinical point-of-view. In addition to serving as tools to delineate signaling processes that follow carbohydrate-dependent cell binding, plant lectins can apparently affect certain characteristics of the host immune system in vitro and in vivo with potential clinical benefit (1,2). With respect to defense mechanisms the generation of reactive oxygen compounds such as the superoxide anion radical (O (2) (-)) and H(2)O(2) or the release of granule enzymes are supposed to play a notable role (3-6) Deliberate enhancement of these activities by lectins may increase the host's capacity to control growth of infectious organisms or malignant cells. Therefore, rigorous testing of plants agglutinins and endogenous lectins that have been isolated from human tissues may enable one to devise a rational lectin-mediated treatment modality This chapter describes the protocols for the respec...
British journal of cancer, Jan 24, 2006
Increased expression of COX-2 or VEGF-C has been correlated with progressive disease in certain c... more Increased expression of COX-2 or VEGF-C has been correlated with progressive disease in certain cancers. Present study utilized several human breast cancer cell lines (MCF-7, T-47D, Hs578T and MDA-MB-231, varying in COX-2 expression) as well as 10 human breast cancer specimens to examine the roles of COX-2 and prostaglandin E (EP) receptors in VEGF-C expression or secretion, and the relationship of COX-2 or VEGF-C expression to lymphangiogenesis. We found a strong correlation between COX-2 mRNA expression and VEGF-C expression or secretion levels in breast cancer cell lines and VEGF-C expression in breast cancer tissues. Expression of LYVE-1, a selective marker for lymphatic endothelium, was also positively correlated with COX-2 or VEGF-C expression in breast cancer tissues. Inhibition of VEGF-C expression and secretion in the presence of COX-1/2 or COX-2 inhibitors or following downregulation of COX-2 with COX-2 siRNA established a stimulatory role COX-2 in VEGF-C synthesis by brea...
Biological chemistry Hoppe-Seyler, 1993
The immunomodulatory galactoside-specific lectin from Viscum album (VAA) induces superoxide anion... more The immunomodulatory galactoside-specific lectin from Viscum album (VAA) induces superoxide anion (O2.-) release from human neutrophils. Among twelve tested lectins, VAA, has the highest activity, clearly surpassing the effect of the human beta-galactoside-specific lectin (galaptin). Its reactivity is blocked in the presence of lactose and is strictly dependent on the carbohydrate-binding B-subunit. The toxic A-subunit of the lectin does not elicit a response. The VAA-induced respiratory burst is less sensitive to addition of adenosine and theophylline than the concanavalin A-mediated reaction. Other modulators like amiloride (up to 100 microM), trifluoperazine and N-ethylmaleimide reveal less pronounced differences, and indomethacin, colchicine (up to 100 microM) as well as cytochalasin B act as stimulators of lectin-induced O2.- release from neutrophils. The O2.- production in the presence of small concentrations of VAA (0.1-20 micrograms/ml) is increased by addition of N-formylme...
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