Attachment of Salmonella to mammalian cells in vitro

1983 ◽  
Vol 29 (12) ◽  
pp. 1731-1735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford S. Mintz ◽  
Dean O. Cliver ◽  
R. H. Deibel

The attachment of Salmonella typhimurium strain PHL67342 to several mammalian tissue culture cell lines was investigated. Strain PHL67342 failed to attach in significant numbers to the Buffalo green monkey (BGM), swine testicular (ST), and HeLa cell lines. Significant attachment was observed with the Henle intestinal cell line. Log-phase cells of strain PHL67342 attached in greatest numbers to the Henle cells after 45 min of incubation at 37 °C. Attachment to the Henle cells was not affected by D-mannose or D-galactose, but was markedly inhibited by high concentrations of alpha-methyl-D-mannoside. Also, Salmonella lipopolysaccharide had no effect on the attachment of strain PHL67342 to the Henle cells. Fimbriae were not detected on the bacterial cells used in the adherence experiments. These results suggest that some bacterial factor(s) other than fimbriae and lipopolysaccharide mediate the attachment of strain PHL67342 to the Henle cells.

Blood ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 1136-1143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick G. Gallagher ◽  
Marc Romana ◽  
William T. Tse ◽  
Samuel E. Lux ◽  
Bernard G. Forget

To begin to study the sequence variations identified in the 5′ flanking genomic DNA of the ankyrin gene in ankyrin-deficient hereditary spherocytosis patients and to provide additional insight into our understanding of the regulation of genes encoding erythrocyte membrane proteins, we have identified and characterized the erythroid promoter of the human ankyrin-1 gene. This compact promoter has characteristics of a housekeeping gene promoter, including very high G+C content and enzyme restriction sites characteristic of an HTF-island, no TATA, InR, or CCAAT consensus sequences, and multiple transcription initiation sites. In vitro DNAseI footprinting analyses revealed binding sites for GATA-1, CACCC-binding, and CGCCC-binding proteins. Transfection of ankyrin promoter/reporter plasmids into tissue culture cell lines yielded expression in erythroid, but not muscle, neural, or HeLa cells. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays, including competition and antibody supershift experiments, demonstrated binding of GATA-1, BKLF, and Sp1 to core ankyrin promoter sequences. In transfection assays, mutation of the Sp1 site had no effect on reporter gene expression, mutation of the CACCC site decreased expression by half, and mutation of the GATA-1 site completely abolished activity. The ankyrin gene erythroid promoter was transactivated in heterologous cells by forced expression of GATA-1 and to a lesser degree BKLF.


2003 ◽  
Vol 66 (7) ◽  
pp. 1115-1125 ◽  
Author(s):  
PINA M. FRATAMICO

The ability of acid-adapted (AA) and non–acid-adapted (NA) Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium definitive type 104 (DT104) strains to invade and multiply in mammalian cells in vitro and to survive stress conditions was examined. DT104 and non-DT104 strains were grown in tryptic soy broth without glucose (NA) or in tryptic soy broth containing 1% glucose (AA) for 18 h at 37°C. The invasiveness of DT104 strains in J774A.1 macrophage and Int407 intestinal cell lines was not more extensive than that of non-DT104 strains. In most cases, AA bacteria were less invasive than NA bacteria in both cell lines. Confocal microscopy showed that both DT104 and non-DT104 strains replicated in the two cell lines. In related studies, the survival levels of three strains of AA and NA DT104 and a non-DT104 (LT2) strain in 150 and 15 mM H2O2, 170 and 43 mM acetic acid, 2.6 M NaCl, 2.6 M NaCl containing 170 mM acetic acid, synthetic gastric fluid (SGF) at pH 2 and pH 3, and apple cider were compared. For all four strains, acid adaptation did not result in increased survival in apple cider. After 15 days of storage at 4°C, reductions ranged from 1.96 to 4.1 log10 CFU/ml for AA bacteria and from 0.48 to 1.34 log10 CFU/ml for NA bacteria from a starting level of ca. 7.00 log10 CFU/ml of cider. Neither AA nor NA DT104 strains were more resistant to NaCl, acetic acid, H2O2, or SGF solutions than non-DT104 strain LT2. The level of AA bacteria was not appreciably reduced after exposure to SGF; however, the level of NA bacteria decreased to nondetectable levels in SGF at pH 2 within 3 h of exposure. These results indicate that the DT104 strains examined were not more invasive, nor did they display increased survival in mammalian cells or increased resistance to food environment stresses compared with non-DT104 strains. However, acid adaptation resulted in increased resistance to a low-pH gastric environment for all strains tested. These data indicate that DT104 strains are likely not more virulent or resistant to stresses relevant to foods than are non-DT104 Salmonella and that procedures used to inactivate or inhibit the growth of Salmonella in foods are likely adequate for DT104 strains.


Blood ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 1136-1143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick G. Gallagher ◽  
Marc Romana ◽  
William T. Tse ◽  
Samuel E. Lux ◽  
Bernard G. Forget

Abstract To begin to study the sequence variations identified in the 5′ flanking genomic DNA of the ankyrin gene in ankyrin-deficient hereditary spherocytosis patients and to provide additional insight into our understanding of the regulation of genes encoding erythrocyte membrane proteins, we have identified and characterized the erythroid promoter of the human ankyrin-1 gene. This compact promoter has characteristics of a housekeeping gene promoter, including very high G+C content and enzyme restriction sites characteristic of an HTF-island, no TATA, InR, or CCAAT consensus sequences, and multiple transcription initiation sites. In vitro DNAseI footprinting analyses revealed binding sites for GATA-1, CACCC-binding, and CGCCC-binding proteins. Transfection of ankyrin promoter/reporter plasmids into tissue culture cell lines yielded expression in erythroid, but not muscle, neural, or HeLa cells. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays, including competition and antibody supershift experiments, demonstrated binding of GATA-1, BKLF, and Sp1 to core ankyrin promoter sequences. In transfection assays, mutation of the Sp1 site had no effect on reporter gene expression, mutation of the CACCC site decreased expression by half, and mutation of the GATA-1 site completely abolished activity. The ankyrin gene erythroid promoter was transactivated in heterologous cells by forced expression of GATA-1 and to a lesser degree BKLF.


1962 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rody P. Cox ◽  
Colin M. MacLeod

The alkaline phosphatase content of different tissue culture cell lines has been shown to vary from no detectable activity to high enzyme concentration. Within the epithelial lines studied alkaline phosphatase is either constitutive or inducible. Two epithelial cell strains in which alkaline phosphatase was "absent" could be induced to develop significant amounts of the enzyme when grown in the presence of Δ1-hydrocortisone. Phosphate did not repress enzyme induction by prednisolone. Under conditions of deadaptation the induced enzyme was diluted by cell multiplication. The mouse fibroblastic L line and several human fibroblastic lines did not contain alkaline phosphatase when grown under the conditions described nor could they be induced to produce the enzyme when cultivated in medium with prednisolone. Δ1-Hydrocortisone has other characteristic effects on established mammalian cell cultures which vary among cell lines. Human epithelial lines show reduction in cell multiplication with increase in mitotic index. The cytoplasm is increased and cell volume is nearly doubled. Mouse fibroblasts show a similar reduction in cell multiplication with a decrease in mitotic index. There is no increase in cell cytoplasm. Human fibroblast strains show no inhibition of multiplication or alteration in total cell protein when grown in medium containing prednisolone. Antisera prepared against "negative" prednisolone-inducible human cell lines and against a positive human line inhibited alkaline phosphatase activity to an equal degree.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-96
Author(s):  
Isra'a Al-sobhi ◽  
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Rawan Al-Ghabban ◽  
Soad Shaker Ali ◽  
Jehan Al-Amri ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Junjian Li ◽  
Lianbao Ye ◽  
Yuanyuan Wang ◽  
Ying Liu ◽  
Xiaobao Jin ◽  
...  

Background: Spirocyclic indoline compounds widely exist in numerous natural products with good biological activities and some drug molecules in many aspects. In recent years, it has attracted extensive attention as potent anti-tumor agents in the fields of pharmacology and chemistry. Objective: In this study, we focused on designing and synthesizing a set of novel 1'-H-spiro[indole-3,4'-piperidine] derivatives, which were evaluated by preliminary bioactivity experiment in vitro and molecular docking. Method: The key intermediate 1'-methylspiro[indoline-3,4'-piperidine] (B4) reacted with benzenesulfonyl chloride with different substituents under alkaline condition to obtain its sulfonyl derivatives (B5-B10). We evaluated their antiproliferative activities against A549, BEL-7402 and HeLa cells by MTT assay. We performed the CDOCKER module in Discovery Studio 2.5.5 software for molecular modeling of compound B5, and investigated the binding of compound B5 with the target proteins from PDB database. Results: The results indicated that compounds B4-B10 exhibited good antiproliferative activities against the above three types of cells, in which compound B5 with chloride atom as electron-withdrawing substituent on a phenyl ring showed the highest potency against BEL-7402 cells (IC50=30.03±0.43 μg/mL). By binging of the prominent bioactive compound B5 to CDK, c-Met, EGFR protein crystals, The binding energy of B5 with these three types receptors are -44.3583 kcal/mol, - 38.3292 kcal/mol, -33.3653 kcal/mol respectively. Conclusion: Six 1'-methylspiro[indoline-3,4'-piperidine] derivatives were synthesized and evaluated against BEL-7402, A- 549, HeLa cell lines. Compound B5 showed significant inhibition on BEL-7402 cell lines. Molecular docking revealed that B5 showed good affinity by the good fitting between B5 and these three targets with amino acid residues in active sites which encourage us to conduct further evaluation such as the kinase experiment.


2020 ◽  
Vol 209 (4-6) ◽  
pp. 177-188
Author(s):  
Katerina Cizkova ◽  
Katerina Koubova ◽  
Tereza Foltynkova ◽  
Jana Jiravova ◽  
Zdenek Tauber

There is growing evidence that soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) may play a role in cell differentiation. sEH metabolizes biologically highly active and generally cytoprotective epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), generated from arachidonic acid metabolism by CYP epoxygenases (CYP2C and CYP2J subfamilies), to less active corresponding diols. We investigated the effect of sEH inhibitor (TPPU) on the expression of villin, CYP2C8, CYP2C9, CYP2J2, and sEH in undifferentiated and in vitro differentiated HT-29 and Caco2 cell lines. The administration of 10 μM TPPU on differentiated HT-29 and Caco2 cells resulted in a significant decrease in expression of villin, a marker for intestinal cell differentiation. It was accompanied by a disruption of the brush border when microvilli appeared sparse and short in atomic force microscope scans of HT-29 cells. Although inhibition of sEH in differentiated HT-29 and Caco2 cells led to an increase in sEH expression in both cell lines, this treatment had an opposite effect on CYP2J2 expression in HT-29 and Caco2 cells. In addition, tissue samples of colorectal carcinoma and adjacent normal tissues from 45 patients were immunostained for sEH and villin. We detected a significant decrease in the expression of both proteins in colorectal carcinoma in comparison to adjacent normal tissue, and the decrease in both sEH and villin expression revealed a moderate positive association. Taken together, our results showed that sEH is an important player in intestinal cell differentiation.


Author(s):  
Teresa D. Rebaza-Cardenas ◽  
Kenneth Silva-Cajaleón ◽  
Carlos Sabater ◽  
Susana Delgado ◽  
Nilda D. Montes-Villanueva ◽  
...  

AbstractIn this work, two Peruvian beverages “Masato de Yuca,” typical of the Amazonian communities made from cassava (Manihot esculenta), and “Chicha de Siete Semillas,” made from different cereal, pseudo-cereal, and legume flours, were explored for the isolation of lactic acid bacteria after obtaining the permission of local authorities following Nagoya protocol. From an initial number of 33 isolates, 16 strains with different RAPD- and REP-PCR genetic profiles were obtained. In Chicha, all strains were Lactiplantibacillus plantarum (formerly Lactobacillus plantarum), whereas in Masato, in addition to this species, Limosilactobacillus fermentum (formerly Lactobacillus fermentum), Pediococcus acidilactici, and Weissella confusa were also identified. Correlation analysis carried out with their carbohydrate fermentation patterns and enzymatic profiles allowed a clustering of the lactobacilli separated from the other genera. Finally, the 16 strains were submitted to a static in vitro digestion (INFOGEST model) that simulated the gastrointestinal transit. Besides, their ability to adhere to the human epithelial intestinal cell line HT29 was also determined. Following both procedures, the best probiotic candidate was Lac. plantarum Ch13, a robust strain able to better face the challenging conditions of the gastrointestinal tract and showing higher adhesion ability to the intestinal epithelium in comparison with the commercial probiotic strain 299v. In order to characterize its benefit for human health, this Ch13 strain will be deeply studied in further works.


1987 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 2286-2293 ◽  
Author(s):  
V C Bond ◽  
B Wold

Poly-L-ornithine has been used to introduce DNA and RNA into mammalian cells in culture. Ornithine-mediated DNA transfer has several interesting and potentially useful properties. The procedure is technically straightforward and is easily applied to either small or large numbers of recipient cells. The efficiency of transformation is high. Under optimal conditions, 1 to 2% of recipient mouse L cells take up and continue to express selectable marker genes. DNA content of transformants can be varied reproducibly, yielding cells with just one or two copies of the new gene under one set of conditions, while under a different set of conditions 25 to 50 copies are acquired. Cotransformation and expression of physically unlinked genes occur at high efficiency under conditions favoring multiple-copy transfer. Polyornithine promotes gene transfer into cell lines other than L cells. These include Friend erythroleukemia cells and NIH 3T3 cells. Both are transformed about 1 order of magnitude more efficiently by this procedure than by standard calcium phosphate products. However, the method does not abolish the large transformation efficiency differences between these cell lines that have been observed previously by other techniques. (vi) mRNA synthesized in vitro was also introduced into cells by this method. The RNA was translated resulting in a transient accumulation of the protein product.


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