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Study on metabolism of polyhydroxybutyrate and glycogen in cyanobacteria
Drinka, Jakub ; Slaninová, Eva (referee) ; Obruča, Stanislav (advisor)
The submitted diploma thesis is focused on establishing a quantification method for glycogen analysis in cyanobacterial cells in order to be able to consider the impact of illumination and other parameters on accumulation of reserve polymers, glycogen and polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), namely poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB). The experiments were conducted with two cyanobacterial species, Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and Synechocystis salina CCALA 192, which were grown both in Erlenmayer flasks (EF) and multicultivator (MC). The methodology for glycogen accumulation was introduced based on available literature and conducted optimalization. The effect of different illumination conditions was observed in a nitrogen-limiting media M22O, in which half of the cultures were cultivated with a 16 hours of light and 8 lights of darkness periods (EF) for the whole duration of the experiment. Others were transfered into full-time dark period after entering the dormant chlorosis state, following the exhaustion of nitrogen levels in the media. Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 showed a decrease in both of the reserve polymers accumulation when introduced to this type of stress conditions. On the other hand, Synechocystis salina CCALA 192 converted some of the glycogen into PHB in the dark, but the polyester levels were lower than those of the cultures continuously cultivated under the lamp. A negative effect on the biomass concentration was also detected, while cyanobacterial pigments seemed to be unaffected by the lack of light, their levels in the EF that remained illuminated decreased due to chrolosis. The experiments in the MC were conducted in the same way, but the light period consisted of constant, 24-hour illumination. Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 seemed to follow a different trend than in cultivations in EF, the PHB concentration was not affected by the dark period and remained on the same amounts, while glycogen was metabolised. Synechocystis salina CCALA 192 increased its polyester reserves in the darkness and in comparison with the first species accumulated almost 4 times more PHB. However, the results acquired from cultivations in MC seemed to be very unequal due to a lot of small differences in the cultivation conditions. That was the reason why in the later stages of experiments they were focused more on a possible PHA copolymer formation, rather than comparing the functions of these two reserve polymers in the light/dark cycles. However, none of the cultivations was succesful in this matter and no monomer other than 3-hydroxybutyrate (3HB) was detected in the dried biomass.
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Biological characteristics of polysccharide based contrast agents for cancer diagnostics
Křivánková, Markéta
Despite all the progress made in the treatment of cancer in recent years, it is still necessary to continue with the research of more effective and specific drugs. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in personalized medicine and its application through drug delivery systems, which could help increase the specificity of cancer treatment and subsequently its effectiveness. Drug delivery systems can use different platforms for their design, whether they are liposomes, micelles, nano crystals or others. A very interesting platform for the construction of drug delivery systems are polysaccharides, which were, as carriers of contrast agents in order to effectively display tumours, characterized in this doctoral thesis. But polysaccharides are interesting for more reasons. Both by its availability, and by its biocompatibility and non-toxic character. In this doctoral thesis we deal with two types of polysaccharides conjugates with linked contrast agents for magnetic resonance and fluorescent imaging. The first type of polysaccharide is glycogen, the second is mannan. Both constructs - glycogen and mannan based, were synthesized in a version with and without polymethyloxazolin, which should prolong their circulation in the organism. Both types of polysaccharide conjugates used passive...
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Biological characteristics of polysccharide based contrast agents for cancer diagnostics
Křivánková, Markéta ; Jirák, Daniel (advisor) ; Shapoval, Oleksandr (referee) ; Vannucci, Luca Ernesto (referee)
Despite all the progress made in the treatment of cancer in recent years, it is still necessary to continue with the research of more effective and specific drugs. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in personalized medicine and its application through drug delivery systems, which could help increase the specificity of cancer treatment and subsequently its effectiveness. Drug delivery systems can use different platforms for their design, whether they are liposomes, micelles, nano crystals or others. A very interesting platform for the construction of drug delivery systems are polysaccharides, which were, as carriers of contrast agents in order to effectively display tumours, characterized in this doctoral thesis. But polysaccharides are interesting for more reasons. Both by its availability, and by its biocompatibility and non-toxic character. In this doctoral thesis we deal with two types of polysaccharides conjugates with linked contrast agents for magnetic resonance and fluorescent imaging. The first type of polysaccharide is glycogen, the second is mannan. Both constructs - glycogen and mannan based, were synthesized in a version with and without polymethyloxazolin, which should prolong their circulation in the organism. Both types of polysaccharide conjugates used passive...
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Study on metabolism of polyhydroxybutyrate and glycogen in cyanobacteria
Drinka, Jakub ; Slaninová, Eva (referee) ; Obruča, Stanislav (advisor)
The submitted diploma thesis is focused on establishing a quantification method for glycogen analysis in cyanobacterial cells in order to be able to consider the impact of illumination and other parameters on accumulation of reserve polymers, glycogen and polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), namely poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB). The experiments were conducted with two cyanobacterial species, Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and Synechocystis salina CCALA 192, which were grown both in Erlenmayer flasks (EF) and multicultivator (MC). The methodology for glycogen accumulation was introduced based on available literature and conducted optimalization. The effect of different illumination conditions was observed in a nitrogen-limiting media M22O, in which half of the cultures were cultivated with a 16 hours of light and 8 lights of darkness periods (EF) for the whole duration of the experiment. Others were transfered into full-time dark period after entering the dormant chlorosis state, following the exhaustion of nitrogen levels in the media. Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 showed a decrease in both of the reserve polymers accumulation when introduced to this type of stress conditions. On the other hand, Synechocystis salina CCALA 192 converted some of the glycogen into PHB in the dark, but the polyester levels were lower than those of the cultures continuously cultivated under the lamp. A negative effect on the biomass concentration was also detected, while cyanobacterial pigments seemed to be unaffected by the lack of light, their levels in the EF that remained illuminated decreased due to chrolosis. The experiments in the MC were conducted in the same way, but the light period consisted of constant, 24-hour illumination. Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 seemed to follow a different trend than in cultivations in EF, the PHB concentration was not affected by the dark period and remained on the same amounts, while glycogen was metabolised. Synechocystis salina CCALA 192 increased its polyester reserves in the darkness and in comparison with the first species accumulated almost 4 times more PHB. However, the results acquired from cultivations in MC seemed to be very unequal due to a lot of small differences in the cultivation conditions. That was the reason why in the later stages of experiments they were focused more on a possible PHA copolymer formation, rather than comparing the functions of these two reserve polymers in the light/dark cycles. However, none of the cultivations was succesful in this matter and no monomer other than 3-hydroxybutyrate (3HB) was detected in the dried biomass.
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Metabolism of new polysacharidic nanomaterials for biomedicinal applications
Jirátová, Markéta ; Hrubý, Martin (advisor) ; Jirák, Daniel (referee)
Cancer is one of the leading cause of death in modern world, so there is an emerging demand for better diagnostic tools and more specific less toxique therapeutics. Nanoparticles offers characteristics that could fullfill such perspectives. They can easily target tumor by ehanced permeation and retention effect (EPR). Nanoparticles can combine more than one imaging properties, so we can say that they are multimodal, some of them could combine diagnostic and therapeutic molecules in one nanoparticle, which is now highly popular topic of nanoparticles for theranostics . The aim of this thesis was to characterize new multimodal glycogen-based nanoparticle. Glycogen is an ideal structure for nanoparticle design. Glycogen is part of natural dendrimers group which are easily to modify. Glycogen's size is suitable for EPR effect. We have evaluated biological characteristics of five different types of modified glycogen. The in vitro experiments were carried on HepG2 cells. We have set time curve of cellular uptake of this glycogen probes, evaluated cytoplasmatic localization and for the first time we have carried MTT assay. Biodistribution studies on CD1-Nude mice were performed by using non-invasive method for measuring in vivo fluorescence. In conlusion we've provided some of the biological characteristics of new...
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Pharmacological modifications of potential signal systems regulating metabolism of adipocytes and hepatocytes and their influence on obesity
Hodis, Jiří ; Farghali, Hassan (advisor) ; Kršiak, Miloslav (referee) ; Otová, Berta (referee)
v anglickém jazyce: Thesis abstract: Background and aims: Both obesity and metabolic syndrome form severe health problems in the whole world. Nevertheless the armament of pharmacotherapy for both diseases remains unsatisfactory. We aimed our work to main organs in risk of the mentioned diseases -liver and visceral fat using hepatocytes and visceral adipocytes as model. We detected 3 main metabolic and signalization activities- glycogenolysis, Nitric oxide (NO) production and transcription of inducible NO synthase (iNOS) in hepatocytes, lipolysis, NO production and iNOS transcription rate in adipocytes. We directed our interest to combination of peroxisome proliferation activator receptor γ (PPARγ) agonist, antagonist and β3 adrenergic agonist in the culture of epididymal rat adipocytes in the first part of our work. While in the second part we investigated the influence of β and α adrenergic mimetics, adrenergic blockers in the culture of rat high glycogen content hepatocytes. Methods: NO production was detected under the active agents treatments by detection of NO oxidative products NO2 and NO3 in media. Glycogenolysis was measured as free glucose rise released by hepatocytes into the media. NOS transcription level was extrapolated after comparative polymerase chain reaction with reverse...
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Functionalized hybrid polymer structures for biomedical applications
Rabyk, Mariia ; Štěpánek, Petr (advisor) ; Sedláková, Zdeňka (referee) ; Kotek, Jan (referee)
This doctoral thesis is dedicated to the synthesis and characterization of novel functionalized hybrid structures for biomedical purposes. Systems reported in this work can be subdivided into the two main groups: natural-based materials and synthetic amphiphilic block copolymers. Both groups were studied as perspective theranostic agents for medical applications. In the first group, natural polysaccharides glycogen and mannan were selected as starting materials for preparation of novel nanoconjugates that possess ability for multimodal detection in vivo. Because grafting of natural macromolecules with synthetic polymers generally slows down the biodegradation rate, both polysaccharides were modified in two different ways to form nanoprobes with or without poly(2-methyl-2-oxazoline)s chains. The prepared nanoconjugates were functionalized with N-hydroxysuccinimide-activated fluorescence and magnetic resonance imaging labels. The resulting materials were tested both in vitro and in vivo and were shown to be completely biocompatible, biodegradable and exhibit some extra benefits in terms of their practical usage in biomedicine. Glycogen was functionalized with allyl and propargyl groups with following freeze-drying from aqueous solutions to form nano- and microfibrous materials. The presence of both...
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Metabolism of new polysacharidic nanomaterials for biomedicinal applications
Jirátová, Markéta ; Hrubý, Martin (advisor) ; Jirák, Daniel (referee)
Cancer is one of the leading cause of death in modern world, so there is an emerging demand for better diagnostic tools and more specific less toxique therapeutics. Nanoparticles offers characteristics that could fullfill such perspectives. They can easily target tumor by ehanced permeation and retention effect (EPR). Nanoparticles can combine more than one imaging properties, so we can say that they are multimodal, some of them could combine diagnostic and therapeutic molecules in one nanoparticle, which is now highly popular topic of nanoparticles for theranostics . The aim of this thesis was to characterize new multimodal glycogen-based nanoparticle. Glycogen is an ideal structure for nanoparticle design. Glycogen is part of natural dendrimers group which are easily to modify. Glycogen's size is suitable for EPR effect. We have evaluated biological characteristics of five different types of modified glycogen. The in vitro experiments were carried on HepG2 cells. We have set time curve of cellular uptake of this glycogen probes, evaluated cytoplasmatic localization and for the first time we have carried MTT assay. Biodistribution studies on CD1-Nude mice were performed by using non-invasive method for measuring in vivo fluorescence. In conlusion we've provided some of the biological characteristics of new...
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Pharmacological modifications of potential signal systems regulating metabolism of adipocytes and hepatocytes and their influence on obesity
Hodis, Jiří ; Farghali, Hassan (advisor) ; Kršiak, Miloslav (referee) ; Otová, Berta (referee)
v anglickém jazyce: Thesis abstract: Background and aims: Both obesity and metabolic syndrome form severe health problems in the whole world. Nevertheless the armament of pharmacotherapy for both diseases remains unsatisfactory. We aimed our work to main organs in risk of the mentioned diseases -liver and visceral fat using hepatocytes and visceral adipocytes as model. We detected 3 main metabolic and signalization activities- glycogenolysis, Nitric oxide (NO) production and transcription of inducible NO synthase (iNOS) in hepatocytes, lipolysis, NO production and iNOS transcription rate in adipocytes. We directed our interest to combination of peroxisome proliferation activator receptor γ (PPARγ) agonist, antagonist and β3 adrenergic agonist in the culture of epididymal rat adipocytes in the first part of our work. While in the second part we investigated the influence of β and α adrenergic mimetics, adrenergic blockers in the culture of rat high glycogen content hepatocytes. Methods: NO production was detected under the active agents treatments by detection of NO oxidative products NO2 and NO3 in media. Glycogenolysis was measured as free glucose rise released by hepatocytes into the media. NOS transcription level was extrapolated after comparative polymerase chain reaction with reverse...
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Cold hardiness of larvae of the fruit fly, \kur{Drosophila melanogaster} (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
KORBELOVÁ, Jaroslava
We assessed survival of larvae of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster at low temperatures (0°C and 5°C) after rearing them under seven different acclimation regimes. Larvae that have developed in a standard diet at 25°C showed 50% mortality after 12,6 min of the exposure to 0°C (Lt50 = 0.21 h). In contrast, larvae that have developed in a diet enriched with glycerol at 15°C, and were cold acclimated at 5°C during last two days of their development, had Lt50 = 38.6 h. It means that it was possible to increase the Lt50 at 0°C more than 180-fold using simple manipulations with rearing temperatures and diet composition. The physiological differences in duration of larval development, fresh mass, dry mass, hydration and total contents of proteins, lipids and glycogen between the larvae belonging to different acclimation variants are described. The samples for future detailed metabolomic analysis were prepared.
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