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Query: EC:3.2.1.36 (hyaluronidase)
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To study components of anionic sites on the lamina densa of the dermo-epidermal junction (DEJ) and to assess the effect of removal of sialic acid or glycosaminoglycans on its charge-selective permeability, epidermal sheets, whose dermis had been removed by treatment with dithiothreitol, were digested with heparitinase, chondroitinase ABC, hyaluronidase, or neuraminidase. They were then stained with polyethyleneimine for demonstration of the anionic sites or incubated in a medium containing native anionic ferritin for tracer experiments. The anionic sites were completely removed after heparitinase digestion. Although the numerical density of the sites was not altered, their electron density was decreased after chondroitinase ABC digestion. The other enzymes had no effect on the sites. In the tracer experiments, heparitinase or neuraminidase increased the number of tracer molecules penetrating into the lamina lucida of the epidermal sheet, while the other enzymes had no effect on it. These data indicate that heparan sulfate, which is a main component of the anionic sites, plays an important role in the charge-selective permeability of the DEJ, whereas chondroitin sulfate, which seems to be contained in the sites, does not, probably because of its small amount. These data also indicate that sialic acid, which is not a main component of the anionic sites demonstrated with the cationic probe, has a role in the permeability function.
J Invest Dermatol 1989 Dec
PMID:Effect of enzyme digestion on anionic sites and charge-selective permeability of dermo-epidermal junction. 258 48

Eggs from reciprocal hybrids between the C57BL/6By and BALB/cBy strains were tested for their susceptibility to attack by hyaluronidase and pronase. There were significant reciprocal differences between the F1 females in the responses of their unfertilized eggs to both enzymes. The F1 hybrids from BALB mothers showed the increased susceptibility characteristic of C57BL whilst the F1 hybrids with C57BL mothers were more resistant to both enzymes, like BALB mice. Eggs from the four kinds of reciprocal F2 hybrid females also showed patroclinous patterns of susceptibility. A patroclinous difference was found between reciprocal crosses of the CXBD and CXBE recombinant inbred strains but not in crosses between recombinant inbred strains with similar phenotypes. Cross fostering did not alter the phenotypes of the C57BL and BALB females or those of their reciprocal F1 hybrids. The findings are interpreted in terms of differential genomic imprinting of paternally inherited information. The possible general usefulness of patroclinous differences between reciprocal F1 females in revealing differences in imprinting is noted.
Genet Res 1989 Dec
PMID:Paternal inheritance of egg traits in mice: a case of genomic imprinting. 262 Aug 20

Effect of oral administration of gossypol acetic acid (15 mg/kg/day) for 10 weeks, on certain enzymes, which may be taken as markers for the different stages of spermatogenesis, was studied in male albino rats. Gossypol produced a significant decrease in hyaluronidase and sorbitol dehydrogenase, while no change was observed in beta-glucuronidase and acid phosphatase. A significant increase in the total lactate dehydrogenase activity was observed in the testis. The possible significance of these findings is discussed.
Indian J Exp Biol 1989 Dec
PMID:Effect of gossypol on few testicular enzymes in mature rats. 263 70

Caprine arthritis encephalitis virus (CAEV) is a lentivirus which infects goats and causes chronic progressive arthritis after a prolonged incubation period. CAEV replicates productively in cultures of goat synovial membrane cells and causes cytopathic effects characterized by multinucleated giant cell formation. The enzyme hyaluronidase was found to accelerate this virus induced fusion of GSM cells. Hyaluronidase treatment also resulted in synthesis of increased levels of unintegrated viral DNA early after infection. However, there was no significant increase in viral RNA in the infected cells or in the amount of virus produced. These studies suggest that hyaluronidase facilitates the interaction of CAEV with the target cells. Further it suggests that only a few copies of viral DNA are required to achieve maximal levels of virus replication. Additional copies of viral DNA appear to be redundant not contributing to viral specific transcription or increased production of virus.
Microb Pathog 1988 Dec
PMID:Hyaluronidase enhances cell fusion and synthesis of viral DNA during infection with caprine arthritis encephalitis virus. 285 88

Daily administration of 2g/kg/day di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) to immature rats was found to cause testicular atrophy and reduce zinc concentration. Specific activities of testicular enzymes associated with postmeiotic spermatogenic cells, such as lactate dehydrogenase isozyme-X, hyaluronidase and sorbitol dehydrogenase, were lower than those of control by day 10, coincident with degeneration of spermatogenic cells. The specific activities of enzymes associated with premeiotic spermatogenic cells, Sertoli cells or interstitial cells (beta-glucuronidase, gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase and malate dehydrogenase) were higher than those of control by day 10. The specific activities of alcohol dehydrogenase and aldolase, zinc containing enzymes, increased after DEHP treatment in spite of the decrease in zinc concentration in the testis. In conclusion, changes in several testicular cell-specific enzymes appear to be useful biochemical markers of testicular injury induced by testicular toxicants such as DEHP. However, these changes occurred after or simultaneous with massive histological or morphological changes rather than prior to such changes.
Arch Toxicol 1986 Dec
PMID:Testicular atrophy induced by di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate: changes in histology, cell specific enzyme activities and zinc concentrations in rat testis. 288 30

Metabolic and permeability properties of enterocytes isolated by treatment of rat small intestine with hyaluronidase or EDTA were compared. No significant difference was observed in the ability of the two types of cell to produce lactate from glucose. However, while cells obtained with hyaluronidase accumulate alpha-methylglucoside, cells obtained with EDTA were unable to accumulate the sugar above the medium concentrations. When resuspended in a medium designed to resemble the intracellular medium, potentiometric measurements showed that cells obtained with hyaluronidase released Ca2+ to the medium while cells obtained with EDTA accumulated it. Using 45Ca transport assays, this was shown to be an ATP-dependent process, the accumulated 45Ca being totally released by the addition of the ionophore A23187. When cells obtained with EDTA were resuspended in a medium containing concentrations of free Ca2+ higher that 10 microM, the uptake was partially inhibited by sodium orthovanadate and also by oligomycin and antimycin. At free Ca2+ concentrations lower than 1 microM, the accumulation was inhibited up to 87% by sodium orthovanadate while mitochondrial inhibitors inhibited only 5%. Thus, it appears that during their preparation cells obtained with hyaluronidase retain their integrity while cells obtained with EDTA become permeable to Ca2+ and other ions. The usefulness of both types of preparation in metabolic and transport studies is discussed.
Biochim Biophys Acta 1986 Dec 19
PMID:Permeability properties of isolated enterocytes from rat small intestine. 294 33

Human hemopoietic blast colony-forming cells (BI-CFCs) recognize and adhere to the extracellular matrix (ECM) produced by marrow-derived stromal cells in vitro. We have investigated the requirements for this interaction by testing the capacity of BI-CFCs to adhere to ECM components under a variety of conditions. Binding was prevented completely by prior treatment of stromal ECM with nitrous acid, in large part by treatment with heparitinase or hyaluronidase, and slightly by treatment with chondroitinases. Whereas heparan sulfate isolated from marrow stromal cultures effectively blocked binding, heparan sulfate from bovine kidney did not. Chondroitin sulfate and hyaluronic acid did not have any effect in this test. In contrast, collagen was not sufficient for the interaction because dishes coated with collagen type I or IV did not act as adhesive surfaces for BI-CFCs. Ligands for integrin receptors (e.g., fibronectin) did not participate in BI-CFC binding because the synthetic pentapeptide glycine-arginine-glycine-asparagine-serine did not compete with stroma in binding BI-CFCs. These findings indicate that heparan sulfate in the bone marrow microenvironment is necessary for BI-CFC binding to ECM and may contribute to localizing hemopoietic stem cells in hemopoietic tissue.
Leukemia 1988 Dec
PMID:Heparan sulfate is necessary for adhesive interactions between human early hemopoietic progenitor cells and the extracellular matrix of the marrow microenvironment. 297 4

Three fluorescein-labeled lectins were shown to bind differentially to cell surfaces in different epithelial layers of rat oral mucosa regardless of the age or the site of origin of the tissue. Griffonia simplicifolia (GS-1-B4), specific for alpha-D-galactosyl end groups, labeled basal cells only; Ulex europeus (Ulex 1) specific for alpha-L-fucosyl groups labeled spinous cells; and Bandeiraea simplicifolia (BSII), specific for N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, labeled cornified cells. Pretreatment of sections with alpha-galactosidase completely abolished the staining of basal cells by GS-1-B4, but had no effect on the staining of spinous cells by Ulex 1. In contrast, alpha-fucosidase abolished the staining of spinous cells by Ulex 1 and caused staining of both basal and spinous cells by GS-1-B4. Neuraminidase and chondroitinase ABC produced results similar to one another, with staining of basal cells by GS-1-B4 and labeling of both basal and spinous cells with Ulex 1. beta-galactosidase, beta-glucuronidase, and testicular hyaluronidase did not affect the staining pattern of GS-1-B4 or Ulex 1, whereas chymotrypsin completely abolished any staining with either lectin. The results demonstrate a complex arrangement of cell surface carbohydrates in the epithelium of rat oral mucosa. The findings indicate a possible simplification in the spatial arrangements of cell surface carbohydrates during the differentiation of basal to spinous cells.
J Invest Dermatol 1985 Dec
PMID:Preferential lectin binding to specific layers of rat oral epithelium and modification by enzyme pretreatment. 299 51

When mouse cytomegalovirus was injected subcutaneously into 4-12 day old CDI mice there was infection of dermal cells and the dermal papillae of hair follicles. Infected cells were never seen in the epidermis nor in the epithelium of hair follicles. When larger doses of virus (5 X 10(4) pfu) were given, dermal infection led to gross necrosis of the skin, ulceration, scabbing and healing with alopecia. Smaller doses (10(4) pfu) did not cause gross necrosis but damage to follicles resulted in alopecia or sparse hair growth. Skin lesions were not seen after infection of 4-8 week old mice, even when the inoculated skin area had been epilated, or when hyaluronidase was mixed with the virus inoculum. These experiments show that cytomegalovirus, in contrast to herpes simplex and varicella-zoster viruses, infects dermal but not epidermal cells, and that dermal tropism is age-restricted.
Br J Exp Pathol 1985 Dec
PMID:Alopecia in mice infected with murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV). 300 14

Hyaluronan was substituted with tyramine-cellobiose on amino residues exposed after hydrazinolytic N-deacetylation of the polysaccharide. Nonsubstituted amino groups were reacetylated, and the carboxylic hydrazides were removed by treatment with HIO3. The adduct was labeled with 125I before or after coupling to hyaluronan. N-deacetylation increased with prolonged pretreatment with hydrazine, which also reduced the chain length of hyaluronan. Hydrazinolysis for 30 min produced hyaluronan with Mr 2.2-2.9 x 10(5). This material was substituted with varying amounts of tyramine-cellobiose (from 1 per 20 to 1 per 130 disaccharides). Hyaluronan labeled in this way was recognized by Streptomyces hyaluronidase, hyaluronan affinity protein of cartilage proteoglycan, and receptors for specific endocytosis of hyaluronan in liver endothelial cells. Since tyramine-cellobiose is nondegradable and therefore is arrested intralysosomally at the site of uptake, turnover studies of hyaluronan can be easily carried out with this ligand.
Anal Biochem 1988 Dec
PMID:Preparation of biologically intact radioiodinated hyaluronan of high specific radioactivity: coupling of 125I-tyramine-cellobiose to amino groups after partial N-deacetylation. 307 Nov 84


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