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HL-60 Cell Line (hl-60 + cell_line)
Selected AbstractsMonitoring river sediments contaminated predominantly with polyaromatic hydrocarbons by chemical and in vitro bioassay techniquesENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY & CHEMISTRY, Issue 7 2001Jan Vondrá Abstract Extracts of sediment samples collected from the Morava River and its tributaries (Czech Republic) were examined for mutagenic, dioxin-like, and estrogenic activities. Moreover, the human leukemic HL-60 cell line was tested as a potential model for the detection of effects of environmental contaminants on cell proliferation and differentiation processes. Analytical data indicate that the sediments were contaminated predominantly with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and phthalate esters. The sums of concentrations of 16 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency priority PAHs ranged from 0.8 to 13.2 ,g/g and those of phthalates reached up to 3,000 ng/g, while only low levels of chlorinated hydrocarbons were found. The main goal of the present study was to determine effects of PAH prevalence on in vitro bioassays, with special emphasis on dioxin-like activity. The dioxin-like activity was tested using a reporter gene assay based on chemical-activated luciferase expression (the CALUX assay). Significant dioxin-like activity (2.6,40.1 ,g/g benzo[a]pyrene equivalents and 5.9,48.2 ng/g 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo- p -dioxin equivalents) was detected in all samples, and the results obtained with various exposure times or with both crude and PAH-deprived extracts indicate that the response was probably caused almost exclusively by the presence of high concentrations of PAHs. This corresponds with results of chemical analyses and indicates that various exposure times would allow a discrimination between dioxin-like activities of persistent compounds and easily metabolized aryl hydrocarbon (Ah) receptor inducers. Only sediment extracts containing the highest concentrations of PAHs were mutagenic, as determined by the umu assay. Estrogenic activity was found in several samples (4.75,22.61 pg/g estradiol equivalents) using cells stably transfected with an estrogen-responsive element linked to a luciferase promoter. Noncytotoxic doses of extracts had no effects on HL-60 cell proliferation, while two of the tested crude extracts significantly enhanced their all- trans retinoic acid-induced differentiation. These activities were not associated with phthalate esters and/or PAHs. Our results indicate that cellular and biochemical in vitro assays based on various specific modes of action may yield data complementary to results of mutagenicity tests and that they could be useful in environmental risk assessment. High levels of PAHs are apparently associated with dioxin-like and mutagenic activities rather than with estrogenic activity. [source] Overexpression of GSTA2 protects against cell cycle arrest and apoptosis induced by the DNA inter-strand crosslinking nitrogen mustard, mechlorethamineJOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY, Issue 2 2005Jingping Xie Abstract The effectiveness of bifunctional alkylating nitrogen mustard compounds in chemotherapy is related to their ability to form DNA inter-strand crosslinks. Patients exposed to DNA inter-strand crosslinking (ICL) agents subsequently experience an elevated incidence of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and MDS related acute myeloid leukemia. Fanconi's anemia (FA) patients are deficient in the repair of crosslink DNA damage and they experience a high incidence of MDS. These observations indicate that hematopoietic cells are specific target for the transforming effects of DNA crosslinking damage. Changes in transcript levels were characterized in human hematopoietic cells occurring in response to the nitrogen mustard, mechlorethamine (HN2), but not in response to monofunctional analogs. Only modest changes in a few gene transcripts were detected in HL60 cells exposed to levels of HN2 tittered to maximal dose that caused growth suppression with minimal cell death and allowed eventual resumption of normal cell growth. Under conditions of transient growth suppression, a subset of glutathione-S-transferase (GST) isoenzyme genes was consistently upregulated three to fourfold by HN2, but not by monofunctional analogs. Subsequent efforts to confirm the changes detected by microarray analyses revealed an unexpected dependence on treatment conditions. The GST alpha class A2 subfamily member transcripts were upregulated 24 h after a 1 h exposure to HN2 that caused an extensive, but transient block in late S/G2 cell cycle phase, but were minimally altered with continuous exposure. The 1-h exposure to HN2 caused a transient late S/G2 cell cycle arrest in both the HL-60 cell line and the Colo 320HSR human colon cancer cell line. Overexpression of GSTA2 by transient transfection protected Colo 320HSR cells against both cycle arrest and apoptosis following exposure to HN2. Overexpression of GSTA2 in Colo 320HSR cells induced after exposure to HN2 did not alter cycle arrest or apoptosis. The results indicate that human GSTA2 facilitates the protection of cells from HN2 damage and not repair. Our results are consistent with the possibility that GSTA2 polymorphisms, variable isoenzyme expression, and variable induced expression may be factors in the pathogenesis of MDS. © 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] A bioluminescent HL-60 cell line to assay anti-leukaemia therapeutics under physiological conditionsLUMINESCENCE: THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL LUMINESCENCE, Issue 1 2008Maria P. Isaza Abstract Screens for compounds and proteins with anti-cancer activity employ viability assays using relevant cancer cell lines. For leukaemia studies, the human leukaemia cell line, HL-60, is often used as a model system. To facilitate the discovery and investigation of anti-leukaemia therapeutics under physiological conditions, we have engineered HL-60 cells that stably express firefly luciferase and produce light that can be detected using an in vivo imaging system (IVIS). Bioluminescent HL-60luc cells could be rapidly detected in whole blood with a sensitivity of approximately 1000 viable cells/200 µl blood. Treatment of HL-60luc cells with the drug chlorambucil revealed that the bioluminescent viability assay is able to detect cell death earlier than the Trypan blue dye exclusion assay. HL-60luc cells administered intraperitoneally (i.p.) or intravenously (i.v.) were visualized in living mice. The rapidity and ease of detecting HL-60luc cells in biological fluid indicates that this cell line could be used in high-throughput screens for the identification of drugs with anti-leukaemia activity under physiological conditions. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Enantioselective Synthesis and Cytotoxic Evaluation of 4,5-Dihydro-5-[aryl(hydroxy)methyl]-3-methylidenefuran-2(3H)-onesCHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY, Issue 9 2005Tomasz Janecki A series of enantiomerically enriched 4,5-dihydro-5-[aryl(hydroxy)methyl]-3-methylidenefuran-2(3H)-ones (8) were synthesized by means of asymmetric Sharpless dihydroxylation of the 2-phosphorylated 5-aryl-pent-4-enoic acids 13, followed by Horner,Wadsworth,Emmons reaction of the resulting furanones 15 (Scheme,2). An enantiomeric excess (ee) of 20,95% was achieved for compounds 8, and their absolute configurations were determined by the Mosher ester method. Cytotoxic evaluation against L-1210 and HL-60 leukemia cell lines revealed that the target compounds 8 are active in the micromolar concentration range (Table,2). Thereby, significant differences in activity between the corresponding enantiomers were observed for the HL-60 cell line. [source] Synthesis, Crystal Structure and in vitro Antitumor Activity of Di- n -butyltin p -[N, N -Bis(2-chloroethyl)amino]benzoatesCHINESE JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, Issue 12 2005Zhong-Wei Zhang Abstract Di- n -butyltin oxide reacted with p- [N,N -bis(2-chloroethyl)amino]benzoic acid to yield the compounds {{4-[(ClCH2CH2)2N]C6H4COOSnBu2}2O}2 (1) and {4-[(ClCH2CH2)2N]C6H4COO}2SnBu2 (2), which have been characterized by IR and 1H NMR spectra. The X-ray diffractional studies of 1 reveal the structure of the molecule to be a dimer, in which the two Bu2Sn groups were linked via two bridging oxygen atoms to form a central Bu4Sn2O2 unit. And the tin atom adopts two carbons from two n -butyl groups and three oxygen atoms from the acid and the bridging oxygen. In vitro test showed compound 1 to exhibit high cytotoxicity against P388 and HL-60 cell lines. [source] | |||||||||||||