2010年6月12日 星期六

Cellular glutathione is a key to the oxygen effect in radiation damage [1978](IR91)

Cellular glutathione is a key to the oxygen effect in radiation damage [1978](IR91)

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Nature 271, 660 - 662 (16 February 1978); doi:10.1038/271660a0

Cellular glutathione is a key to the oxygen effect in radiation damage

M. L. MORSE & ROLF H. DAHL
Webb Waring Lung Institute, and Department of Biophysics and Genetics, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, Colorado 80262

OXYGEN is known to enhance biological changes induced by ionising radiation1,2. The changes include
chromosome breaks (
染色體斷裂) in Tradescantia 3 mutation ((基因的)突變, (生物物種的)突變) production in Drosophila, maize and bacteria3−6, and rate of mitosis ((【生】(細胞的)有絲分裂)) in grasshopper neuroblasts7. The biological and physical bases for the various enhancements remain obscure, and it has not yet been established that they are the result of a common mechanism. The quantitative aspects of the relationship between oxygen concentration and radiation response have been measured: for example, killing of Escherichia coli by X-ray radiation at a constant radiation dose8 and various interpretations of the quantitative aspects of the response base have been made9−12. Ionising radiation has been proposed to interact with water to produce several products and these products interact with cellular material to produce the biological effects observed. In the reactions proposed, cellular sulphydryl groups are supposed to be a primary cellular constituent which is reactive with the radiation products from water. We report here that one major cellular sulphydryl constituent, glutathione (GSH), is apparently the major component in the interaction between radiation products and the cell, for cells unable to synthesise glutathione cannot be protected against killing by ionising radiation by reduction of the external oxygen concentration.

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2010年6月7日 星期一

Thioredoxin and glutaredoxin systems.; by Arne Holmgren, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 264, 13963-13966. [1989](IR92)

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L-cysteine and disulfide bonds mentioned in Book - Cellular and Molecular Immunology, 6th edition; by Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of California-San Francisco [2007](IR93)


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L-cysteine and disulfide bonds
mentioned in Book - Cellular and Molecular Immunology, 6th edition; by Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of California-San Francisco [2007](IR93)

Book - Cellular and Molecular Immunology, 6th edition; by Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of California-San Francisco [2007](IR93).jpg

characteristic cysteine-rich motifs
in their extracellular regions and a cytoplasmic TIR homology domain [2007](IR91).png

FIGURE 14-3 Antibody-mediated opsonization and phagocytosis of microbes [2007](IR91).png

FIGURE 4-1 Structure of an antibody molecule. A. Schematic diagram of a secreted IgG molecule [2007](IR91).png


2010年6月1日 星期二

Keyword {glutathione} doesn't exist in book [Cellular and Molecular Immunology, 6th edition; by Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of California-San Francisco

June 2, 2010; 11:43:25 a.m. Taipei Time

Keyword {glutathione} doesn't exist in book [
Cellular and Molecular Immunology, 6th edition; by Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of California-San Francisco [2007]].png

Yet, [Cellular and Molecular Immunology] by Abul K. Abbas i
s certainly a great book.  What I'm trying to say here is that the important and mysterious roles played by glutathione is still a secret one level down, thus beyond even the scope covered by such an advanced book like [Cellular and Molecular Immunology].  That's why I named it:

The Secret of Life and Death - A Scientific Approach
生老病死的秘密 - 從科學的觀點切入

湯偉晉 (WeiJin Tang) 親手寫作於 西元 2010-06-02