The role of ionic strength on the enhancement of the hemolytic activity of sticholysin I, a cytolysin from Stichodactyla helianthus

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 165-178

  Alvarez, C ^a   Lanio, M E ^a   Tejuca, M ^a   Martinez D ^a   Pazos, F ^a   Campos, A M ^b   Encinas, M V ^b   Pertinhez, T ^c   Schreier, S ^c   Lissi, E A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA   (Cuba)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLYSIN; STICHOLYSIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATION; DRUG MECHANISM; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INCUBATION TIME; IONIC STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEA ANEMONE;

ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEA ANEMONES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; HELIANTHUS; STICHODACTYLA HELIANTHUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031949373     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(97)00069-X     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Alvarez, C., Tejuca, M., Morera, V., Besada, V., Pazos, F., Veitia, R., Luzardo, M. C., Acevedo, A. M., Padron, G. and Lanio, M. E. (1994) Some characteristics of sticholysin: a novel cytolysin from S. helianthus. Advances in Modern Biotechnology 2, 135.
2. 2+ -ATPaSe. Journal of Chemical and Biochemical Kinetics 3, 27-30.
3. Bernheimer, A. W. and Rudy, B. (1986) Interaction between membranes and cytolytic peptides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 864, 123-141.
4. Blumenthal, K. M. and Kem, W. R. (1983) Primary structure of Stoichactis helianthus cytolysin III. Journal of Biological Chemistry 258, 5574-5581.
5. Castañeda, O., Sotolongo, V., Amor, A. M., Stocklin, R., Anderson, A., Harvey, A. L. and Karlsson, E. (1995) Characterization of a potassium channel blocker from the Caribbean sea anemone Stichodactyla helianthus. Toxicon 33, 603-613.
6. Creighton, I. R. L. (1990) Protein Structure: A Practical Approach, pp. 251-285. IRL Press (Oxford University Press), Oxford..
7. Delfin, J., Gonzalez, Y., Diaz, J. and Chavez, M. (1994) Proteinase inhibitor from Stichodactyla helianthus: purification, characterization and immobilization. Archives of Medical Research 25, 199-204.
8. Devlin, J. P. (1974) Isolation and partial purification of hemolytic toxin from the sea anemone Stoichactis helianthus. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 63, 1478-1480.
9. Díaz, A., Tejuca, M., Alvarez, C., Lanio, M. E. and Gomez, T. (1992) Anticoagulant effect of total extract and some fractions obtained from the sea anemone Stichodactyla helianthus. Revista Iberoamericana Trombosis y Homeostasis 5, 8-11.
10. Fink, L. A. (1995) Compact intermediate states in protein folding. Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure 24, 495-522.
11. Gómez, T., Romero, L., Wong, L., Barral, A., Martínez, J., Más, R. and Chávez, M. A. (1986) Isolation and partial purification of two toxins and a protease inhibitor from Stoichactis helianthus anemone. Revista Cubana de Investigacion Biomedica 5, 1177-1250.
12. Habermann, E. (1972) Bee and wasp venoms. Science 111, 314-322.
13. Harshman, S. and Sugg, N. (1985) Effect of calcium ions on staphylococcal alpha-toxin induced hemolysis of rabbit erythrocytes. Infection and Immunity 47, 37-40.
14. Kem, W. R. and Dunn, B. M. (1988) Separation and characterization of four different amino acid sequence variants of a sea anemone (Stichodactyla helianthus) protein cytolysin. Toxicon 26, 997-1008.
15. Lanio, M., Morera, V., Alvarez, C., Tejuca, M., Gomez, T., Pazos, F., Martinez, D., Besada, V., Padron, G. and Chavez, M. A. (1997) Purification and characterization of two hemolysins from Stichodactyla helianthus. FEBS Letters, submitted.
16. Lehrer, S. S. (1971) Solute perturbation of protein fluorescence. The quenching of tryptophyl fluorescence of model compounds and of lysozyme by iodide ions. Biochemistry 10, 3254-3263.
17. Liscum, L. and Underwood, K. W. (1995) Intracellular cholesterol transport and compartmentation. Journal of Biological Chemistry 270, 14443-15446.
18. Macek, P., Zecchini, M., Pederzolli, C., Dalla Serra, M. and Menestrina, G. (1995) Intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence of equinatoxin II, a pore-forming polypeptide from the sea anemone Actinia equina L, monitors its interaction with lipid membranes. European Journal of Biochemistry 234, 329-335.
19. Michaels, D. W. (1979) Membrane damage by a toxin from the sea anemone Stoichactis helianthus. I: Formation of transmembrane channels in lipid bilayers. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 555, 67-78.
20. Morera, V., Gomez, T., Besada, V., Estrada, R., Pons, T., Alvarez, C., Tejuca, M., Lanio, M. E. and Pazos, F. (1994) Primary structure analysis of the hemolytic polypeptide sticholysin isolated from a sea anemone. Advances in Modern Biotechnology 2, 135.
21. New, R. R. C. (1990) Liposomes: A Practical Approach, series eds D. Rickwood and B. D. Hames. IRL Press (Oxford University Press), Oxford. .
22. Parker, M. W. and Pattus, F. (1993) Rendering a membrane protein soluble in water: a common packing motif in bacterial protein toxins. Trends in Biochemical Sciences 18, 391-395.
23. Rietveld, A. and DeKruijff, B. (1985) Phospholipids as possible instruments for translocation of nascent proteins across biological membranes. Bioscience Reports 6, 775-782.
24. Schechter, E. (1990) Biochimie et Biophysique des Membranes: Aspects Structuraux et Funtionnels. Masson, Paris.
25. Sherman, M. A., Beechem, J. M. and Mas, M. T. (1995) Probing interdomain conformational changes during equilibrium unfolding of phosphoglycerate kinase: fluorescence and circular dichroism study of tryptophan mutants. Biochemistry 34, 13934-13942.
26. Tejuca, M., Alvarez, C., Lanio, M. E. and Pazos, F. (1994) Effect of different factors on the hemolytic activity of a cytolysin of Stichodactyla helianthus. Revista de Biologia 8, 39-46..
27. Tejuca, M., Dalla Serra, M., Ferreras, M., Lanio, M. E. and Menestrina, G. (1996a) The mechanism of membrane permeabilisation by sticholysin I, a cytolysin isolated from the venom of the sea anemone Stichodactyla helianthus. Biochemistry 35, 14947-14957.
28. Tejuca, M., Luzardo, M. C., Alvarez, C., Veitía, R., Pazos, F. and Lanio, M. E. (1996b) Influence of pH on the mechanism of a cytolysin of Stichodactyla helianthus. Revista de Biologia 10, 125-132.
29. +) ATPase activity in cholesterol fed rabbits. International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research 56, 307-310.
30. Varanda, W. and Finkelstein, A. (1980) Ion and nonelectrolyte permeability properties of channels formed in planar lipid bilayer membranes by cytolytic toxin from the sea anemone Stoichactis helianthus. Journal of Membrane Biology 55, 203-211.
31. Veitía, R., Tejuca, M., Alvarez, C., Lanio, M. E. and Pazos, F. (1995) Kinetic of hemolysis induced by a cytolysin from Stichodactyla helianthus: effect of temperature and divalent cations. Revista Biologia 9, 15-22.
32. Waterhous, D. V. and Johnson, W. C. (1994) Importance of environment in determining secondary structure in proteins. Biochemistry 33, 2121-2128.