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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Key words: TGFβ1 — Chondrocytes — 1α-Hydroxylase — 24-Hydroxylase
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Physics
    Notes: Abstract. Chondrocytes metabolize 25-(OH)D3 to the two active dihydroxylated forms of the secosteroid, 1,25-(OH)2D3 and 24,25-(OH)2D3. The aim of the present study was to examine the activity of the enzymes responsible for this metabolism, 1α-hydroxylase and 24R-hydroxylase, and their regulation by TGFβ1. Basal 1α- and 24R-hydroxylase activities were measured in homogenates of confluent, fourth passage rat costochondral resting zone and growth zone chondrocytes and mouse cortico-tubular cells (MCT) were used as a positive control. The cells were harvested and homogenized in buffer optimized to maintain the activity and stability of the hydroxylases. Homogenates were incubated for 90 minutes and 1α- and 24R-hydroxylase activities determined by measuring the conversion of [3H]-25-(OH)D3 to [3H]-1,25-(OH)2D3 and [3H]-24,25-(OH)2D3 using an HPLC with an inline radioisotope detector. Resting zone cells were also treated with various concentrations of recombinant human TGFβ1 for 24 hours, and enzyme activity in total cell homogenates as well as 24-hydroxylase mRNA levels were determined. In addition, [3H]-1,25-(OH)2D3 and [3H]-24,25-(OH)2D3 released into the conditioned media by resting zone chondrocyte cultures in response to TGFβ1 were measured. In culture, all three cell types were found to contain 1α- and 24R-hydroxylase activities. Basal 1α-hydroxylase specific activity was significantly higher than 24R-hydroxylase specific activity in all cells. RT-PCR confirmed that resting zone and growth zone cells expressed mRNA for 24R-hydroxylase. Treatment of resting zone cells with TGFβ1 increased 24R-hydroxylase mRNA levels in a dose-dependent manner. TGFβ1 also increased 24R-hydroxylase activity 2- to 5-fold and decreased 1α-hydroxylase activity by 20–30%. Similar changes were observed with MCT cells, but not growth zone cells. Production of [3H]-24,25-(OH)2D3 by resting zone cells increased with TGFβ1 treatment, while [3H]-1,25-(OH)2D3 production decreased. The effect was time- and dose-dependent, correlating with hydroxylase activity and 24-hydroxylase gene expression. These results demonstrate that growth plate chondrocytes contain the necessary enzymes to produce 1,25-(OH)2D3 and 24,25-(OH)2D3 from 25-(OH)D3. In addition, the activity of these enzymes in resting zone cells, but not growth zone cells, is regulated by TGFβ1 by increasing gene transcription, indicating that cell maturation-dependent autocrine/paracrine pathways exist for regulating vitamin D metabolite production.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Key words: Chondrocyte cultures — 24,25-(OH)2D3— Matrix vesicles — Protein kinase C — Phospholipase A2— Monensin — Quinacrine — Nongenomic.
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Physics
    Notes: Abstract. Plasma membranes and matrix vesicles isolated from rat costochondral resting zone chondrocyte cultures contain predominantly protein kinase C alpha (PKCα) and PKCζ, respectively, and the level of PKC specific activity in these membrane fractions is regulated by 24,25-(OH)2D3 [14]. In the present study, we examined whether the effect of 24,25-(OH)2D3 on membrane PKC is via genomic mechanisms during biogenesis and through a nongenomic mechanism after the matrix vesicles are resident in the matrix. There was a dose-dependent decrease in matrix vesicle PKC specific activity and a significant increase in plasma membrane enzyme activity in cultures treated for 90 minutes with 10−9–10−7 M 24,25-(OH)2D3. However, at 12 hours, matrix vesicle PKC was stimulated, but no effect was seen in the plasma membranes, suggesting that the effect seen at 90 minutes was due to a direct action of the hormone on PKC activity in the membrane, and that the effect seen at 12 hours was due to new matrix vesicle production with altered PKC content. Neither actinomycin D nor cycloheximide inhibited matrix vesicle PKC at 30, 60, or 90 minutes, but by 12 hours, these inhibitors blocked the effect of the hormone. 24,25-(OH)2D3-dependent plasma membrane PKC was sensitive to both actinomycin D and cycloheximide at early time points, but by 12 hours, no effect of the inhibitors was seen. Monensin did not alter basal plasma membrane PKC activity or the 24,25-(OH)2D3-dependent increase, suggesting that this increase was due to translocation of cytosolic PKC rather than new membrane synthesis. Monensin did not affect matrix vesicle PKC at early time points, but it decreased 24,25-(OH)2D3-dependent enzyme activity at later times, indicating that new matrix vesicle production was blocked. At least part of the effect of 24,25-(OH)2D3 on PKC involved phospholipase A2 (PA2). Quinacrine (a PA2 inhibitor) alone had no effect on matrix vesicle PKC, but in cultures treated for 12 hours with quinacrine and 24,25-(OH)2D3, a synergistic increase in matrix vesicle PKC was observed. Quinacrine caused a time-dependent decrease in matrix vesicle PKC and a dose- and time-dependent increase in plasma membrane PKC when incubated directly with the membranes, supporting the hypothesis that PA2 plays a role in the nongenomic regulation of PKC by 24,25-(OH)2D3. Experiments using anti-isoform specific antibodies showed that 24,25-(OH)2D3 modulated the distribution of PKCα, β, and ζ between the plasma membrane and matrix vesicle compartments via translocation and new PKC synthesis. Thus, the data support the hypothesis that 24,25-(OH)2D3 regulates matrix vesicles through two pathways: a genomic one at the stage of biosynthesis and packaging, and a second nongenomic mechanism acting directly upon matrix vesicles in the matrix. These data also indicate that matrix vesicle regulation consists of complex events with several different points of regulation.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1432-1351
    Keywords: Aplysia ; Carbonic anhydrase ; Statoconia ; Organ culture
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract A novel organ culture system has been developed to study the regulation of statoconia production in the gravity sensing organ in Aplysia californica. Statocysts were cultured in Leibovitz (L15) medium supplemented with salts and Aplysia haemolymph for four days at 17°C. The viability of the system was evaluated by examining four parameters: statocyst morphology, the activity of the mechanosensory cilia in the statocyst, production of new statoconia during culture and change in statoconia volume after culture. There were no morphological differences in statocysts before and after culture when ciliary beating was maintained. There was a 29% increase in the number of statoconia after four days in culture. Mean statocyst, statolith and statoconia volumes were not affected by culture conditions. The presence of carbonic anhydrase in the statocysts was shown using immunohistochemistry. When statocysts were cultured in the presence of 4.0 × 10−4 M acetazolamide to inhibit the enzyme activity, there was a decrease in statoconia production and statoconia volume, indicating a role for this enzyme in statoconia homeostasis, potentially via pH regulation. These studies are the first to report a novel system for the culture of statocysts and show that carbonic anhydrase is involved in the regulation of statoconia volume and production.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Key words: Calcium carbonate —Aplysia californica— Statoconia — Urease — Carbonic anhydrase.
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Physics
    Notes: Abstract. To better understand the mechanisms that could modulate the formation of otoconia, calcium carbonate granules in the inner ear of vertebrate species, we examined statoconia formation in the gravity-sensing organ, the statocyst, of the gastropod mollusk Aplysia californica using an in vitro organ culture model. We determined the type of calcium carbonate present in the statoconia and investigated the role of carbonic anhydrase (CA) and urease in regulating statocyst pH as well as the role of protein synthesis and urease in statoconia production and homeostasis in vitro. The type of mineral present in statoconia was found to be aragonitic calcium carbonate. When the CA inhibitor, acetazolamide (AZ), was added to cultures of statocysts, the pH initially (30 min) increased and then decreased. The urease inhibitor, acetohydroxamic acid (AHA), decreased statocyst pH. Simultaneous addition of AZ and AHA caused a decrease in pH. Inhibition of urease activity also reduced total statoconia number, but had no effect on statoconia volume. Inhibition of protein synthesis reduced statoconia production and increased statoconia volume. In a previous study, inhibition of CA was shown to decrease statoconia production. Taken together, these data show that urease and CA play a role in regulating statocyst pH and the formation and maintenance of statoconia. CA produces carbonate ion for calcium carbonate formation and urease neutralizes the acid formed due to CA action, by production of ammonia.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Matrix vesicles ; Osteoblast-like cells ; Metalloproteinases ; Ascorbic acid ; β-Glycerophosphate
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Physics
    Notes: Abstract Matrix vesicles, media vesicles, and plasma membranes from three well-characterized, osteoblast-like cells (ROS 17/2.8, MG-63, and MC-3T3-E1) were evaluated for their content of enzymes capable of processing the extracellular matrix. Matrix vesicles were enriched in alkaline phosphatase specific activity over the plasma membrane and contained fully active neutral, but not acid, metalloproteinases capable of digesting proteoglycans, potential inhibitors of matrix calcification. Matrix vesicle enrichment in neutral metalloproteinase varied with the cell line, whereas collagenase, lysozyme, hyaluronidase, and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases (TIMP) were not found in any of the membrane fractions examined. MC-3T3-E1 cells were cultured for 32 days in the presence of ascorbic acid (100 μg/ml), β-glycerophosphate (5 mM), or a combination of the two, to assess changes in matrix vesicle enzymes during calcification. Ascorbate or β-glycerophosphate alone had no effect, but in combination produced significant increases in both active and total neutral metalloproteinase in matrix vesicles and plasma membranes, with the change seen in matrix vesicles being the most dramatic. This correlated with an increase in the formation of von Kossa-positive nodules. The results of the present study indicate that osteoblast-like cells produce matrix vesicles enriched in proteoglycan-degrading metalloproteinases. In addition, the observation that matrix vesicles contain significantly increased metalloproteinases under conditions favorable for mineralization in vitro lends support to the hypothesis that matrix vesicles play an important role in extracellular matrix processing and calcification in bone.
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Key words: Microbial calcification — Proteolipid — Dental calculus — Amino acid sequence — cDNA nucleotide sequence.
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Physics
    Notes: Abstract. Corynebacterium matruchotii is a microbial inhabitant of the oral cavity associated with dental calculus formation. It produces membrane-associated proteolipid capable of inducing hydroxyapatite formation in vitro. This proteolipid was purified from chloroform:methanol extracts by chromatography on Sephadex LH-20 and migrated on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis at 6-9 kDa. Removal of covalently attached acyl moieties by methanolic KOH decreased its molecular mass to approximately 5.5 kDa. The amino acid sequence of the apoproteolipid indicated a peptide of 50 amino acids, a calculated molecular weight of 5354 Da, and an isoelectric point of 4.28. Sequence analysis revealed an 8 amino acid sequence with homology to human phosphoprotein phosphatase 2A as well as several potential acylation sites and one phosphorylation site. The purified proteolipid induced calcium precipitation in vitro. Deacylation of the proteolipid by hydroxylamine treatment resulted in 〉50% loss of calcium-precipitating activity, suggesting that covalently attached lipids are required. Degenerate oligonucleotide primers, based on the amino acid sequence, were used to amplify the gene for the 5.5 kDa proteolipid from total chromosomal DNA of C. matruchotii by PCR. A 166 bp cDNA was isolated and sequenced, confirming the amino acid sequence of the proteolipid. Thus, we have sequenced a unique bacterial proteolipid that is involved in the formation of dental calculus by precipitating Ca2+ and possibly in transport of inorganic phosphate, necessary for hydroxyapatite formation.
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  • 7
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    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 56 (1994), S. 331-339 
    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: 1,25-(OH)2D3 ; 24,25-(OH)2D3 ; matrix vesicles ; nongenomic regulation ; extracellular matrix ; alkaline phosphatase ; phospholipase A2 ; Protein kinase C ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Vitamin D metabolites appear to regulate chondrocytes and osteoblasts via a combination of genomic and nongenomic mechanisms. Specificity of the nongenomic response to either 1,25-(OH)2D3 or 24, 25-(OH)2D3 may be conferred by the chemical composition of the target membrane and its fluid mosaic structure, by the presence of specific membrane receptors, or by the interaction with classic Vitamin D receptors. Nongenomic effects have been shown to include changes in membrane fluidity, fatty acid acylation and reacylation, arachidonic acid metabolism and prostaglandin production, calcium ion flux, and protein kinaase C activity. Chondrocytes metabolize 25-(OH)D3 to 1,25-(OH)2D3 and 24,25-(OH)2D3; production of these metabolites is regulated by both growth factors and hormones and is dependent on the state of cell maturation. 1,25-(OH)2D3 and 24,25-(OH)2D3 may interact directly with extracellular matix vesicles to regulate their function in the matrix, including protease activity, resulting in matrix modefication and calcification. Isolated matrix vesicles, produced by growth zone chondrocytes, can activate latent transforming growth factor-β when incubated with exogenous 1,25-(OH)2D3. These observations suggest that nongenomic regulation of martix vesicle structure and function may be a mechanism by which mesenchymal cells, like osteoblasts and chndrocytes, may modulate events in the extracellular matrix at sites distant from the cell surace.
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  • 8
    ISSN: 0021-9304
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine , Technology
    Notes: Titanium (Ti) surface roughness affects proliferation, differentiation, and matrix production of MG-63 osteoblast-like cells. Cytokines and growth factors produced in the milieu surrounding an implant may also be influenced by its surface, thereby modulating the healing process. This study examined the effect of surface roughness on the production of two factors known to have potent effects on bone, prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1). MG-63 cells were cultured on Ti disks of varying roughness. The surfaces were ranked from smoothest to roughest: electropolished (EP), pretreated with hydrofluoric acid-nitric acid (PT), fine sand-blasted, etched with HCl and H2SO4, and washed (EA), coarse sand-blasted, etched with HCl and H2SO4, and washed (CA), and Ti plasma-sprayed (TPS). Cells were cultured in 24-well polystyrene (plastic) dishes as controls and to determine when confluence was achieved. Media were collected and cell number determined 24 h postconfluence. PGE2 and TGF-β1 levels in the conditioned media were determined using commercial radioimmunoassay and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kits, respectively. There was an inverse relationship between cell number and Ti surface roughness. Total PGE2 content in the media of cultures grown on the three roughest surfaces (FA, CA, and TPS) was significantly increased 1.5-4.0 times over that found in media of cultures grown on plastic or smooth surfaces. When PGE2 production was expressed per cell number, CA and TPS cultures exhibited six- to eightfold increases compared to cultures on plastic and smooth surfaces. There was a direct relationship between TGF-β1 production and surface roughness, both in terms of total TGF-β1 per culture and when normalized for cell number. TGF-β1 production on rough surfaces (CA and TPS) was three to five times higher than on plastic. These studies indicate that substrate surface roughness affects cytokine and growth factor production by MG-63 cells, suggesting that surface roughness may modulate the activity of cells interacting with an implant, and thereby affect tissue healing and implant success. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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  • 9
    ISSN: 0021-9304
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine , Technology
    Notes: The effect of surface roughness on osteoblast proliferation, differentiation, and protein synthesis was examined. Human osteoblast-like cells (MG63) were cultured on titanium (Ti) disks that had been prepared by one of five different treatment regimens. All disks were pretreated with hydrofluoric acid-nitric acid and washed (PT). PT disks were also: washed, and then electropolished (EP); fine sandblasted, etched with HCl and H2SO4, and washed (FA); coarse sandblasted, etched with HCl and H2SO4, and washed (CA); or Ti plasma-sprayed (TPS). Standard tissue culture plastic was used as a control. Surface topography and profile were evaluated by brightfield and darkfield microscopy, cold field emission scanning electron microscopy, and laser confocal microscopy, while chemical composition was mapped using energy dispersion X-ray analysis and elemental distribution determined using Auger electron spectroscopy. The effect of surface roughness on the cells was evaluated by measuring cell number, [3H]thymidine incorporation into DNA, alkaline phosphatase specific activity, [3H]uridine incorporation into RNA, [3H]proline incorporation into collagenase digestible protein (CDP) and noncollagenase-digestible protein (NCP), and [35S]sulfate incorporation into proteoglycan.Based on surface analysis, the five different Ti surfaces were ranked in order of smoothest to roughest: EP, PT, FA, CA, and TPS. A TiO2 layer was found on all surfaces that ranged in thickness from 100 Å in the smoothest group to 300 Å in the roughest. When compared to confluent cultures of cells on plastic, the number of cells was reduced on the TPS surfaces and increased on the EP surfaces, while the number of cells on the other surfaces was equivalent to plastic. [3H]Thymidine incorporation was inversely related to surface roughness. Alkaline phosphatase specific activity in isolated cells was found to decrease with increasing surface roughness, except for those cells cultured on CA. In contrast, enzyme activity in the cell layer was only decreased in cultures grown on FA- and TPS-treated surfaces. A direct correlation between surface roughness and RNA and CDP production was found. Surface roughness had no apparent effect on NCP production. Proteoglycan synthesis by the cells was inhibited on all the surfaces studied, with the largest inhibition observed in the CA and EP groups. These results demonstrate that surface roughness alters osteoblast proliferation, differentiation, and matrix production in vitro. The results also suggest that implant surface roughness may play a role in determining phenotypic expression of cells in vivo.
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  • 10
    ISSN: 0021-9304
    Keywords: implant ; titanium ; osteoblasts ; surface roughness ; 1α,25- (OH)2D3 ; differentiation ; local factor ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine , Technology
    Notes: Surface roughness has been shown to affect differentiation and local factor production of MG63 osteoblast-like cells. This study examined whether surface roughness alters cellular response to circulating hormones such as 1α,25-(OH)2D3. Unalloyed titanium (Ti) disks were pretreated with HF/HNO3 (PT) and then were machined and acid-etched (MA). Ti disks also were sandblasted (SB), sandblasted and acid etched (CA), or plasma sprayed with Ti particles (PS). The surfaces, from smoothest to roughest, were: PT, MA, CA, SB, and PS. MG63 cells were cultured to confluence on standard tissue culture polystyrene (plastic) or the Ti surfaces and then treated for 24 h with either 10-8M or 10-7M 1α,25-(OH)2D3 or vehicle (control). Cellular response was measured by assaying cell number, cell layer alkaline phosphatase specific-activity, and the production of osteocalcin, latent (L) TGFβ, and PGE2. Alkaline phosphatase activity was affected by surface roughness; as the surface became rougher, the cells showed a significant increase in alkaline phosphatase activity. Addition of 1α,25-(OH)2D3 to the cultures caused a dose-dependent stimulation of alkaline phosphatase activity that was synergistic with the effect caused by surface roughness alone. 1α,25-(OH)2D3 also caused a synergistic increase in osteocalcin production as well as local factor (LTGFβ and PGE2) production on the rougher CA, SB, and PS surfaces, but it had no effect on the production on smooth surfaces. The inhibitory effect of surface roughness on cell number was not affected by 1α,25-(OH)2D3 except on the SB surface. 1α,25-(OH)2D3 decreased cell number, increased alkaline phosphatase activity and osteocalcin production, and had no effect on LTGFβ or PGE2 production by MG63 cells grown on tissue culture polystyrene. These data suggest that bone cell response to systemic hormones is modified by surface roughness and that surface roughness increases the responsiveness of MG63 cells to 1α,25-(OH)2D3. They also suggest that the endocrine system is actively involved in normal bone healing around implants. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res, 39, 77-85, 1998.
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