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2-DE analysis of hepatocyte secretome under hyperhomocysteinemia
Chrudinová, Martina ; Ryšlavá, Helena (advisor) ; Novák, Petr (referee)
Homocysteine is a plasmatic, sulphur-containing amino acid derived from methionin. It is an amino acid not used in protein synthesis and it's role is to serve as an intermediate in numerous metabolic pathaways. Elevated concentrations of homocysteine in blood are associated with many pathologies, as cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes or osteoporosis, thus homocysteine has been a common subject of many biochemical experiments in last two decades. For this bachelor thesis, the proteomic comparison of proteins secreted by primary human hepatocytes under 2mM homocysteine and primary human hepatocytes with no homocysteine added to the incubation medium was made, using large-gel two-dimensional electrophoresis. Hepatocytes were incubated in serum free medium for 48 hours. Proteins secreted to medium were precipitated by acetonitrile. Two dimensional electrophoresis was made. Protein maps were analysed by PDQuest Advanced 8.0.1 2D Gel Analysis Software (Bio-Rad, USA). Search criteria for differentially secreted proteins were three-fold change at the signicance level 95 %, Student's t-test. These proteins were cut off the preparative gels and identified by tandem mass spectrometry. In total, there were 17 spots equal to 15 proteins found as differentially exprimed proteins. Among these...
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Study of activation properties of insulin, IGF-1 and IGF-2 analogs towards the receptors for insulin and IGF-1
Chrudinová, Martina ; Selicharová, Irena (advisor) ; Šulc, Miroslav (referee) ; Skálová, Lenka (referee)
The insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling axis is a complex system that is involved in the regulation of metabolism and body growth. It includes three related peptide hormones: insulin and two insulin-like growth factors (IGF-1 and IGF-2), and their receptors: two isoforms of insulin receptor (IR-A and IR-B), and IGF-1 receptor (IGF-1R). Whereas insulin is involved predominantly in regulation of the metabolism, IGFs participate mainly in the regulation of cell growth, proliferation and differentiation. Due to the similarities in the structures of both the hormones and the receptors, all the hormones can bind and activate all the receptors, although with different potencies. At which point and how are the "metabolic" and "mitogenic" functional outcomes of the system diversified, as well as the structural determinants responsible for the different affinities of the hormones to the individual receptors, is still not completely understood. Deregulation of the insulin/IGF system can result in many types of pathological states, mainly diabetes mellitus and cancer. Therefore, to deeply understand the functioning of the insulin/IGF system to the structural details is crucial for development of analogs with desirable properties, that are of great clinical interest. First of all, we developed a...
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Interaction studies of insulin, IGF-1/2 and IGF-1 analogue with insulin and IGF-1 receptors
Chrudinová, Martina ; Ryšlavá, Helena (advisor) ; Liberda, Jiří (referee)
Insulin-like growth factors 1 and 2 (IGF-1/2) are single-chain peptides exerting homology (in both amino-acid sequence and tertiary structure) to insulin. The main function of these peptides is promoting celular growth, proliferation and differentiation. Both insulin and insulin-like growth factors mediate their function through membrane receptors - insulin receptor (isoforms A and B) and IGF-1 receptor. All these receptors are members of the tyrosinkinase family of receptors and they exert the same subunit and domain composition. The activation of insulin and IGF-1 receptors is tightly associated with activation of two intracellular signaling pathways. The PI3-K/Akt pathway is involved in the glucose transport to the cell, induction of proliferation or inhibition of apoptosis, while the Ras/MAPK pathway is involved mainly in the induction of cell growth and differentiation. Due to the structure similarity in both the ligands and receptors, every ligand can activate different receptors (with different potency) and the signaling pathways associated with these receptors. Thus, the functions of IGFs and insulin, the same as their receptors, are overlapping. The distinct function of the concrete ligand can be distinguished by the different tissue distribution of both isoforms of insulin receptor and...
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2-DE analysis of hepatocyte secretome under hyperhomocysteinemia
Chrudinová, Martina ; Ryšlavá, Helena (advisor) ; Novák, Petr (referee)
Homocysteine is a plasmatic, sulphur-containing amino acid derived from methionin. It is an amino acid not used in protein synthesis and it's role is to serve as an intermediate in numerous metabolic pathaways. Elevated concentrations of homocysteine in blood are associated with many pathologies, as cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes or osteoporosis, thus homocysteine has been a common subject of many biochemical experiments in last two decades. For this bachelor thesis, the proteomic comparison of proteins secreted by primary human hepatocytes under 2mM homocysteine and primary human hepatocytes with no homocysteine added to the incubation medium was made, using large-gel two-dimensional electrophoresis. Hepatocytes were incubated in serum free medium for 48 hours. Proteins secreted to medium were precipitated by acetonitrile. Two dimensional electrophoresis was made. Protein maps were analysed by PDQuest Advanced 8.0.1 2D Gel Analysis Software (Bio-Rad, USA). Search criteria for differentially secreted proteins were three-fold change at the signicance level 95 %, Student's t-test. These proteins were cut off the preparative gels and identified by tandem mass spectrometry. In total, there were 17 spots equal to 15 proteins found as differentially exprimed proteins. Among these...
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