19 research outputs found
Potency of integrating three-dimensional cardiac magnetic resonance imaging into electroanatomic mapping to perform catheter ablation in pediatrics
Arrest of chinese hamster cells in G2 following treatment with the anti-tumor drug bleomycin
Normal Cells Control the Growth of Neighboring Transformed Cells Independent of Gap Junctional Communication and Src Activity
Carbohydrate-dependent signaling from the phosphatidylglucoside-based microdomain induces granulocytic differentiation of HL60 cells
Glycosphingolipids form glycosphingolipid signaling microdomains. Here, we report an unrecognized type of phosphatidylglucoside (PhGlc)-based lipid microdomain in HL60 cells. Treatment of cells with rGL-7, which preferentially reacts with PhGlc, induced differentiation of HL60 cells. This was manifested by the appearance of nitroblue tetrazolium-positive cells together with CD38 expression and c-Myc down-regulation. We determined the molecular mechanisms underlying early stages of signal transduction. rGL-7 treatment induced rapid tyrosine phosphorylation of Src family protein kinases Lyn and Hck. Reduction of endogenous cholesterol after application of methyl-β-cyclodextrin suppressed rGL-7-stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation. Phosphorylated proteins and PhGlc colocalized in the Triton X-100 insoluble, light buoyant density fraction after sucrose gradient ultracentrifugation of HL60 cell lysates. This suggests PhGlc-based microdomain is involved in GL-7 signaling. Ligation of known components of microdomains, such as sphingomyelin and ganglioside GM1, with corresponding antibodies failed to induce differentiation and tyrosine phosphorylation. These results show that PhGlc constitutes a previously undescribed lipid signaling domain, and the glucose residue of PhGlc is critical for organization of the carbohydrate-dependent signaling domain involved in cellular differentiation of HL60 cells
Sterol glycosides and cerebrosides accumulate in Pichia pastoris, Rhynchosporium secalis and other fungi under normal conditions or under heat shock and ethanol stress
Takeshi Sakaki, Ulrich Zähringer, Dirk C. Warnecke, Annette Fahl, Wolfgang Knogge and Ernst Hein