Activation of alphav beta3 integrin on human osteoclast-like cells stimulates adhesion and migration in response to osteopontin

Integrins mediate cell adhesion and can induce different cellular responses, including changes in intracellular pH, changes and oscillation in intracellular free calcium, and protein phosphorylation on tyrosine. During bone resorption, the integrin alphav beta3 regulates adhesion of osteoclasts to bone extracellular matrix proteins, such us osteopontin (Opn). Adhesion via alphav beta3 is followed by osteoclast polarization onto the bone surface and by the onset of bone resorption. To characterize these events at the molecular level, we investigated the state of activation of alphav beta3 on the human osteoclast-like cell line GCT23 using the monoclonal antibody AP5 which binds to and can induce, under low calcium conditions, activated alphav beta3. By flow cytometry, approximately 50% of alphav beta3 on the surface of the osteoclast-like cell line GCT23 was reactive with AP5 and was therefore in the activated state. Incubation with AP5 in the presence of low calcium concentrations increased activated alphav beta3 to 90-100%. Activation of alphav beta3 increased the efficiency of GCT23 adhesion to Opn by 2-fold. Furthermore, haptotactic migration on Opn was also enhanced about 40% compared to control. We propose that changes in the activation state of alphav beta3 may be a regulation point for osteoclasts during bone resorption.     

Photoelectric properties of undoped and lithium-doped Zn1−xMgxTe alloys

The room temperature photoelectric response of undoped and lithium-doped Zn_1–xMg_xTe (0 x 0.50) alloys has been measured in the wavelength range 0.50 3.0 m. The response curve for undoped samples is characterized by a single peak in the band edge region. The peak shifts with composition in accordance with the expected shift in the energy band gap. Lithium-doped samples show an additional peak centred at 1.04 eV for all compositions. This peak is attributed to photo-generated holes in the split-off band created as the result of electronic transitions to shallow acceptor impurities.     

Zero-knowledge proofs of retrievability

Proof of retrievability (POR) is a technique for ensuring the integrity of data in outsourced storage services.In this paper,we address the construction of POR protocol on the standard model of interactive proof systems.We propose the first interactive POR scheme to prevent the fraudulence of prover and the leakage of verified data.We also give full proofs of soundness and zero-knowledge properties by constructing a polynomial-time rewindable knowledge extractor under the computational Diffie-Hellman assump...     

Corrosion inhibition and adsorption properties of cerium-amino acid complexes on mild steel in acidic media: Experimental and DFT studies

Abstract

The corrosion inhibition and adsorption behavior of glutamic acid (Glu), glutamine (Gln), and their cerium complexes: cerium glutamate (Ce(Glu)) and cerium glutamine (Ce(Gln)) on mild steel in 0.5?M HCl solutions were studied at 25 and 55?°C and concentration range of 25–200?ppm using potentiodynamic polarization (PDP) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopic (EIS) techniques. The inhibition efficiency was found to be dependent on the concentration and temperature of the system. The potentiodynamic polarization results suggest that the compounds act as mixed-type inhibitors with dominant cathodic inhibition. The mechanism of adsorption deduced from the variation of inhibition efficiency with temperature, as well as the activation parameters, suggest significant physisorption of the inhibitor molecules on the metal surface. The experimental data adhere to the Langmuir and El-Awady et al. kinetic adsorption models. The extent of inhibition was found to be Ce-Gln?>?Gln and Ce-Glu?>?Glu. The scanning electron microscope was employed for the morphological studies and the characteristic of the protective layer on the steel surface verified using UV-Vis spectroscopy and FTIR spectroscopy. Adsorption of the inhibitors on Fe (110) surface was evaluated theoretically.     

Primary binding domain of bovine von Willebrand factor fragment expressed in E. coli

Bovine vWF cDNA has been cloned from a bovine endothelial cell library. A fragment of this cDNA, corresponding to amino acid sequence Leu 469-Ser 723, called primary adhesion domain (PAD-1), and containing the binding sites for platelet glycoprotein Ib (GPIb), heparin and collagen, has been expressed in E. coli. The reduced and alkylated form of fragment PAD-1 inhibited native vWF binding to GPIb. Fragment PAD-1 bound to heparin and botrocetin in a specific and dose dependent manner as did the native vWF. In a solid-phase assay, fragment PAD-1 bound to calf skin collagen in contrast to a human vWF recombinant fragment (Ser 445-Val 733) which was inactive in the same assay. The studies presented in this paper demonstrated that the A1 domain of bovine vWF contained the GPIb, heparin, botrocetin as well as collagen binding sites and that integrity of the disulfide bond (Cys 509-Cys 695), did not seem to be essential for binding of bovine vWF fragment to GPIb.