Factors influencing the functional outcome of patients with acute epidural hematomas: analysis of 200 patients undergoing surgery |
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Authors: | EJ Lee YC Hung LC Wang KC Chung HH Chen |
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Affiliation: | Department of Aquatic Bioscience, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan. |
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Abstract: | An actin-depolymerizing marine natural product, mycalolide B, and a related compound, kabiramide D, were labeled with biocytin, a biotin derivative, and used to specify target molecules in cultured rat 3Y1 fibroblasts. Mycalolide B exhibited the ability to bind to various intracellular proteins, probably through the Michael addition of a sulfhydryl group to C5 of mycalolide B. However, no intracellular proteins other than actin apparently reacted with biocytinylated kabiramide D, demonstrating that the binding of kabiramide D to actin was highly specific. Cells treated with biocytinylated kabiramide D followed by staining with fluorescein isothiocyanate-conjugated avidin showed that biocytinylated kabiramide D bound to stress fibers composed of F-actin, although the staining intensity was weaker than the fluorescent phalloidin staining. The assay for the binding of kabiramide D to actin, which had previously been treated with other actin-depolymerizing agents, showed that the actin-binding site for kabiramide D was the same as that for bistheonellide A, but not those for latrunculin A and cytochalasin D. |
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