Non-thermal effects of terahertz radiation on gene expression in mouse stem cells

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2679-2689

  Alexandrov, Boian S ^a   Rasmussen, Kim Ø ^a   Bishop, Alan R ^a   Usheva, Anny ^c   Alexandrov, Ludmil B ^b   Chong, Shou ^c   Dagon, Yossi ^c   Booshehri, Layla G ^d   Mielke, Charles H ^d   Lisa Phipps, M ^e   Martinez, Jennifer S ^e   Chen, Hou Tong ^e   Rodriguez, George ^e  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e CENTER FOR INTEGRATED NANOTECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMALS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; STEM CELLS;

ADIPONECTIN; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BROAD BANDS; CELLULAR RESPONSE; CIVIL APPLICATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSIONS; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; LOW POWER; MONITORING TECHNIQUES; NON THERMAL EFFECT; Q-RT-PCR; RADIATION-INDUCED; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION SOURCE; THZ IRRADIATION; THZ RADIATION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVITY;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 84860656615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.2.002679     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. R. M. Woodward, B. E. Cole, V. P. Wallace, R. J. Pye, D. D. Arnone, E. H. Linfield, and M. Pepper, "Terahertz pulse imaging in reflection geometry of human skin cancer and skin tissue, " Phys. Med. Biol. 47(21), 3853-3863 (2002).
2. S. J. Oh, J. Kang, I. Maeng, J. S. Suh, Y. M. Huh, S. Haam, and J. H. Son, "Nanoparticle-enabled terahertz imaging for cancer diagnosis, " Opt. Express 17(5), 3469-3475 (2009).
3. V. P. Wallace, A. J. Fitzgerald, S. Shankar, N. Flanagan, R. Pye, J. Cluff, and D. D. Arnone, "Terahertz pulsed imaging of basal cell carcinoma ex vivo and in vivo, " Br. J. Dermatol. 151(2), 424-432 (2004).
4. R. Appleby and H. B. Wallace, "Standoff detection of weapons and contraband in the 100 GHz to 1 THz region, " IEEE Trans. Antenn. Propag. 55(11), 2944-2956 (2007).
5. J. F. Federici, B. Schulkin, F. Huang, D. Gary, R. Barat, F. Oliveira, and D. Zimdars, "THz imaging and sensing for security applications: explosives, weapons and drugs, " Semicond. Sci. Technol. 20(7), S266-S280 (2005).
6. D. Zimdars and J. S. White, "Terahertz reflection imaging for package and personnel inspection, " Proc. SPIE 5411, 78-83 (2004).
7. L. Thrane, R. H. Jacobsen, P. Uhd Jepsen, and S. R. Keiding, "THz reflection spectroscopy of liquid water, " Chem. Phys. Lett. 240(4), 330-333 (1995).
8. P. U. Jepsen, U. Møller, and H. Merbold, "Investigation of aqueous alcohol and sugar solutions with reflection terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, " Opt. Express 15(22), 14717-14737 (2007).
9. G. J. Wilmink and J. E. Grundt, "Invited review article: current state of research on biological effects of terahertz radiation, " J. Infrared Millimeter Terahertz Waves (2011), http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10762-011-9794-5.
10. THz-BRIDGE Project web-page (2004), http://www.frascati.enea.it/THz-BRIDGE/.
11. T. T. L. Kristensen, W. Withayachumnankul, P. U. Jepsen, and D. Abbott, "Modeling terahertz heating effects on water, " Opt. Express 18(5), 4727-4739 (2010).
12. G. J. Wilmink, B. D. Rivest, C. C. Roth, B. L. Ibey, J. A. Payne, L. X. Cundin, J. E. Grundt, X. Peralta, D. G. Mixon, and W. P. Roach, "In vitro investigation of the biological effects associated with human dermal fibroblasts exposed to 2.52 THz radiation, " Lasers Surg. Med. 43(2), 152-163 (2011).
13. G. J. Wilmink, B. L. Ibey, C. L. Roth, R. L. Vincelette, B. D. Rivest, C. B. Horn, J. Bernhard, D. Roberson, and W. P. Roach, "Determination of death thresholds and identification of terahertz (THz)-specific gene expression signatures, " Proc. SPIE 7562, 75620K, 75620K-8 (2010).
14. A. Korenstein-Ilan, A. Barbul, P. Hasin, A. Eliran, A. Gover, and R. Korenstein, "Terahertz radiation increases genomic instability in human lymphocytes, " Radiat. Res. 170(2), 224-234 (2008).
15. J. S. Olshevskaya, A. S. Ratushnyak, and A. K. Petrov, A.S. Kozlov AS, T.A. Zapara, "Effect of terahertz electromagnetic waves on neurons systems, " in IEEE Region 8 International Conference on Computational Technologies in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2008. SIBIRCON 2008 (IEEE, New York 2008), pp. 210-211.
16. R. Shiurba, T. Hirabayashi, M. Masuda, A. Kawamura, Y. Komoike, W. Klitz, K. Kinowaki, T. Funatsu, S. Kondo, S. Kiyokawa, T. Sugai, K. Kawamura, H. Namiki, and T. Higashinakagawa, "Cellular responses of the ciliate, Tetrahymena thermophila, to far infrared irradiation, " Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 5(9), 799-807 (2006).
17. H. Fröhlich, "The extraordinary dielectric properties of biological materials and the action of enzymes, " Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 72(11), 4211-4215 (1975).
18. Y. Feng, R. D. Beger, X. Hua, and E. W. Prohofsky, "Breathing modes near a junction of DNA double helices, " Phys. Rev. A 40(8), 4612-4619 (1989).
19. M. Blank and R. Goodman, "Do electromagnetic fields interact directly with DNA?" Bioelectromagnetics 18(2), 111-115 (1997).
20. H. Urabe, M. Kato, Y. Tominaga, and K. Kajiwara, "Counterion dependence of water of hydration in DNA gel, " J. Chem. Phys. 92(1), 768-774 (1990).
21. B. M. Fischer, M. Walther, and P. Uhd Jepsen, "Far-infrared vibrational modes of DNA components studied by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, " Phys. Med. Biol. 47(21), 3807-3814 (2002).
22. O. P. Cherkasova, V. I. Fedorov, E. F. Nemova, and A. S. Pogodin, "Influence of terahertz laser radiation on the spectral characteristics and functional properties of albumin, " Opt. Spectrosc. 107(4), 534-537 (2009).
23. W. F. Edwards, D. D. Young, and A. Deiters, "The effect of microwave irradiation on DNA hybridization, " Org. Biomol. Chem. 7(12), 2506-2508 (2009).
24. G. N. Kulipanov, N. G. Gavrilov, B. A. Knyazev, E. I. Kolobanov, V. V. Kotenkov, V. V. Kubarev, A. N. Matveenko, L. E. Medvedev, S. V. Miginsky, L. A. Mironenko, V. K. Ovchar, V. M. Popik, T. V. Salikova, M. A. Scheglov, S. S. Serednyakov, O. A. Shevchenko, A. N. Skrinsky, V. G. Tcheskidov, and N. A. Vinokurov, "Research highlights from the Novosibirsk 400 W average power THz FEL, " Terahertz Sci. Technol. 1(2), 107-125 (2008).
25. S. P. Mickan, A. Menikh, H. Liu, C. A. Mannella, R. MacColl, D. Abbott, J. Munch, and X.-C. Zhang, "Label-free bioaffinity detection using terahertz technology, " Phys. Med. Biol. 47(21), 3789-3795 (2002).
26. P. Haring Bolivar, M. Brucherseifer, M. Nagel, H. Kurz, A. Bosserhoff, and R. Büttner, "Label-free probing of genes by time-domain terahertz sensing, " Phys. Med. Biol. 47(21), 3815-3821 (2002).
27. B. S. Alexandrov, V. Gelev, A. R. Bishop, A. Usheva, and K. Ø. Rasmussen, "DNA breathing dynamics in the presence of a terahertz field, " Phys. Lett. A 374(10), 1214-1217 (2010).
28. P. Maniadis, B. S. Alexandrov, A. R. Bishop, and K. Ø. Rasmussen, "Feigenbaum cascade of discrete breathers in a model of DNA, " Phys. Rev. E Stat. Nonlin. Soft Matter Phys. 83(1), 011904 (2011).
29. J. Bock, Y. Fukuyo, S. Kang, M. L. Phipps, L. B. Alexandrov, K. Ø. Rasmussen, A. R. Bishop, E. D. Rosen, J. S. Martinez, H.-T. Chen, G. Rodriguez, B. S. Alexandrov, and A. Usheva, "Mammalian stem cells reprogramming in response to terahertz radiation, " PLoS ONE 5(12), e15806 (2010).
30. K. Y. Kim, A. J. Taylor, J. H. Glownia, and G. Rodriguez, "Coherent control of terahertz supercontinuum generation in ultrafast laser-gas interactions, " Nat. Photonics 2(10), 605-609 (2008).
31. G. Rodriguez and G. L. Dakovski, "Scaling behavior of ultrafast two-color terahertz generation in plasma gas targets: energy and pressure dependence, " Opt. Express 18(14), 15130-15143 (2010).
32. A. S. Whitehead, K. Zahedi, M. Rits, R. F. Mortensen, and J. M. Lelias, "Mouse C-reactive protein. Generation of cDNA clones, structural analysis, and induction of mRNA during inflammation, " Biochem. J. 266(1), 283-290 (1990).
33. B. S. Alexandrov, V. Gelev, S. W. Yoo, A. R. Bishop, K. Ø. Rasmussen, and A. Usheva, "Toward a detailed description of the thermally induced dynamics of the core promoter, " PLOS Comput. Biol. 5(3), e1000313 (2009).
34. B. S. Alexandrov, V. Gelev, S. W. Yoo, L. B. Alexandrov, Y. Fukuyo, A. R. Bishop, K. Ø. Rasmussen, and A. Usheva, "DNA dynamics play a role as a basal transcription factor in the positioning and regulation of gene transcription initiation, " Nucleic Acids Res. 38(6), 1790-1795 (2010).