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Response of cultured Müller cells to heat shock--an immunocytochemical study of heat shock and intermediate filament proteins in response to temperature elevation.

Müller cells from adult rabbit retina were cultured at normal (37 degrees C) temperature and under heat shock conditions (42-43 degrees C) for either 1.5 hr or 4 hr. The presence of heat shock proteins of three different molecular weights, and of vimentin, was identified by the use of monoclonal antibodies and of GFAP by a suitable polyclonal antibody coupled in each instance with immunofluorescence microscopy or immuno-electron microscopy. Heat shock conditions resulted in the expression of HSP of molecular weights in the ranges 57-61 kD, 68 kD and 90 kD. The high level of expression of GFAP in unshocked Müller cell cultures (80-90% of cells) was reduced after 1.5 hr of heat shock to 20-30% of cells, and after 4 hr to only 5%. Although the expression of vimentin (90% of untreated cells) was only slightly reduced by heat shock (60-80% of cells) the intracellular staining pattern of vimentin was greatly altered by heat shock. Changes in the expression of HSP, GFAP and vimentin can all be regarded as part of the Müller cell response to heat shock conditions.

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Heat shock-enhanced T cell apoptosis with heat shock protein 70 on T cell surface in multicentric Castleman's disease.

We report here that T cells from patients with multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD) are sensitive to hyperthermia. T cells from two of three patients with MCD revealed DNA ladder formation and chromatin condensation following heat shock (30 min at 41.5 degrees C). Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from the same MCD patients exhibited high levels of spontaneous apoptosis after 72 h in culture and elevated apoptosis after heat shock, as evaluated by a quantitative flow cytometric assay. Heat shock protein 70 (hsp70) was detected on the cell surface of T cells in all three patients after heat shock. Furthermore, hsp70 was detected on T cells in the two MCD patients with apoptosis even in the absence of heat shock. T cells from normal samples did not show either heat-shock-induced expression of cell-surface hsp70 or apoptosis. Thus, heat shock treatment augmented hsp70 expression on the cell surface of T cells and enhanced apoptosis. Our studies suggest that hyperthermia may influence the clinical course of MCD.

Antigens, Surface↗

Transcriptional activation of a heat shock gene promoter in sunflower embryos: synergism between ABI3 and heat shock factors.

Transient expression analyses in sunflower embryos demonstrated that ABI3, a seed-specific transcription factor from Arabidopsis, activated chimaeric genes with the Ha hsp17.7 G4 promoter. Nucleotide substitutions at crucial positions of heat shock cis-elements established that they are required for the transcriptional activation involving ABI3. Trans-activation with Lp-HSFA1, a heat shock factor from tomato, reproduced the activation patterns of wild-type and mutant promoters observed with ABI3. In addition, ABI3 and Lp-HSFA1 synergistically activated the Ha hsp17. 7 G4 promoter, but only when it contained the intact proximal and distal heat shock cis-elements. The activation domain of Lp-HSFA1 was necessary for promoter activation. An amino terminal deletion of ABI3 had dominant negative effects on activation by Lp-HSFA1. We failed to detect a substantial transcriptional activation by ABI3 in the absence of either functional heat shock factors or heat shock elements (HSEs). Furthermore, the wild-type, but not the mutant HSEs (from - 136 to - 49 in Ha hsp17.7 G4) were sufficient, in the context of a - 46 CaMV 35S promoter, to support activation by Lp-HSFA1, or Lp-HSFA1 and ABI3. These results demonstrate, for the first time, transcriptional activation of a heat shock protein promoter by ABI3. We also suggest that ABI3 functions as a transcriptional co-activator through heat shock factors.

Arabidopsis Proteins↗

Sepsis, resuscitated hemorrhagic shock and "shock lung:" An experimental correlation.

Dogs were submitted to hermorrhagic shock, resuscitated shock and resuscitated shock plus a pulmonary bacterial insult. Pulmonary familure was absent in dogs submitted only to shock or to shock and its resuscitation. The addition of usually sub-lethal amounts of micro-organisms to the shock-resuscitated lung caused rapid death from pulmonary failure. Pulmonary failure was demonstrated by increased lung weight, hypoxemia, decreased compliance and a hemorrhagic destruction of lung tissue. These findings strongly support recent concepts of an infective genesis of "shock lung" in man.

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Effect of heat shock on susceptibility of normal lymphoblasts and of a heat shock protein 70-defective tumour cell line to cytotoxic T lymphocytes in vitro.

The effect of heat shock pretreatment of target cells on their lysability by cytotoxic T lymphocytes was analysed. Killing of Concanavalin A-stimulated normal lymphocytes by minor or major histocompatibility antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes is unchanged or even slightly enhanced after heat shock, whereas cells of the myeloma line Y3, which is derived from one of the lymphocyte donor strains, become nearly resistant to killing after the same pretreatment. Cold target inhibition experiments show that heat-shocked cells are recognized specifically and that untreated and heat-shocked target cells possess similar inhibitory potential. Y3 cells are unable to express the strongly heat-inducible heat shock protein of 70 kDa (hsp70) after heat shock; the acquired resistance is thus independent of hsp70 induction. Possible mechanisms of the different lysability seen in lymphoblasts and tumour cells after heat shock are discussed.

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Cold shock response and major cold shock proteins of Vibrio cholerae.

When exponentially growing Vibrio cholerae cells were shifted from 37 degrees C to various lower temperatures, it was found that the organism could adapt and grow at temperatures down to 15 degrees C, below which the growth was completely arrested. There was no difference between the patterns of the cold shock responses in toxinogenic and nontoxinogenic strains of V. cholerae. Gel electrophoretic analyses of proteins of cold-exposed cells revealed significant induction of two major cold shock proteins (Csps), whose molecular masses were 7.7 kDa (CspA(VC)) and 7.5 kDa (CspV), and six other Csps, most of which were much larger. We cloned, sequenced, and analyzed the cspV gene encoding the CspV protein of V. cholerae O139 strain SG24. Although CspA(VC) and CspV have similar kinetics of synthesis and down-regulation, the corresponding genes, cspA and cspV, which are located in the small chromosome, are not located in the same operon. A comparative analysis of the kinetics of synthesis revealed that the CspV protein was synthesized de novo only during cold shock. Although both CspA(VC) and CspV were stable for several hours in the cold, the CspV protein was degraded rapidly when the culture was shifted back to 37 degrees C, suggesting that this protein is probably necessary for adaptation at lower temperatures. Northern blot analysis confirmed that the cspV gene is cold shock inducible and is regulated tightly at the level of transcription. Interestingly, the cspV gene has a cold shock-inducible promoter which is only 12 nucleotides from the translational start site, and therefore, it appears that no unusually long 5' untranslated region is present in its mRNA transcript. Thus, this promoter is an exception compared to other promoters of cold shock-inducible genes of different organisms, including Escherichia coli. Our results suggest that V. cholerae may use an alternative pathway for regulation of gene expression during cold shock.

Bacterial Proteins↗

Regulation of gene expression in corn (Zea mays L.) by heat shock. II. In vitro analysis of RNAs from heat-shocked seedlings.

Five-day-old maize seedlings subjected to heat shock exhibit a dramatic enhancement in the synthesis of a small group of polypeptides. Isolation of total RNA from control and heat-shocked maize plumules, fractionation of poly(A)+ mRNA by oligo(dT)-cellulose chromatography, and in vitro translations of the RNAs in both the rabbit reticulocyte and the wheat germ systems indicates that there is remarkable fidelity of the mRNA pool obtained from heat-shocked plumules to reproduce in vitro those same polypeptides whose synthesis is greatly elevated in the intact, heat-shocked plumule. Moreover, these heat-shock polypeptides with molecular masses of 108 000, 89 000, 84 000, 73 000, and 18 000 are translated from polyadenylated mRNAs. The absence of a 76 000 dalton heat-shock polypeptide (HSP) and the presence of fewer isoelectric point variants of the 89 000 and 84 000 dalton HSPs among the in vitro translation products suggests that translational and (or) posttranslational regulatory mechanisms might be operative in determining the final spectrum of the maize heat-shock proteins.

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The L-type cyclin CYL-1 and the heat-shock-factor HSF-1 are required for heat-shock-induced protein expression in Caenorhabditis elegans.

In a screen for suppressors of activated GOA-1 (Galpha(o)) under the control of the hsp-16.2 heat-shock promoter, we identified three genetic loci that affected heat-shock-induced GOA-1 expression. The cyl-1 mutants are essentially wild type in appearance, while hsf-1 and sup-45 mutants have egg-laying defects. The hsf-1 mutation also causes a temperature-sensitive developmental arrest, and hsf-1 mutants have decreased life span. Western analysis indicated that mutations in all three loci suppressed the activated GOA-1 transgene by decreasing its expression. Heat-shock-induced expression of hsp-16.2 mRNA was reduced in cyl-1 mutants and virtually eliminated in hsf-1 and sup-45 mutants, as compared to wild-type expression. The mutations could also suppress other transgenes under heat-shock control. cyl-1 and sup-45, but not hsf-1, mutations suppressed a defect caused by a transgene not under heat-shock control, suggesting a role in general transcription or a post-transcriptional aspect of gene expression. hsf-1 encodes the C. elegans homolog of the human heat-shock factor HSF1, and cyl-1 encodes a cyclin most similar to cyclin L. We believe HSF-1 acts in heat-shock-inducible transcription and CYL-1 acts more generally in gene expression.

Age Factors↗

Shock: new developments in the management of shock.

Circulatory shock represents critical reductions of blood flow to tissues with curtailed delivery of energy substrate and especially oxygen. Generation of lactic acid highlights the onset of anaerobic metabolism and represents the clinical hallmark of perfusion failure. For the purpose of classification, prognostication and management, we now recognize four mechanisms by which circulatory shock may evolve. The first three represent states of decreased cardiac output in which shock may stem from acute decreases in circulating volume (hypovolemic shock), loss of patency to mainstream blood flow (obstructive shock) or impaired myocardial function (cardiogenic shock). The fourth one represents altered distribution of blood flow such that perfusion failure may emerge despite increases in total blood flow (distributive shock).

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Prognosis and management of anterolateral myocardial infarction in patients with severe left main disease and cardiogenic shock. The left main shock syndrome.

BACKGROUND: To identify the determinants of survival in patients with severe (> 75%) stenosis of the left main coronary artery (LM) and an acute (48 hours) anterolateral myocardial infarction (AAMI), we retrospectively analyzed the course of 34 such patients who presented to our institution over the last decade. METHODS AND RESULTS: LM disease was diagnosed arteriographically at presentation, and AAMI was determined by ECG, enzymatic, and kinetic criteria. Of the nine patients (26%) managed medically, seven patients (78%) were in cardiogenic shock (cardiac index < 2.0, left ventricular end-diastolic pressure > 25, and pulmonary edema), and all seven died in hospital. Twenty-five (74%) of the 34 patients were managed surgically or with angioplasty. Nine of these patients, of whom eight were in cardiogenic shock, also died in hospital. Regardless of the method of treatment, the presence of cardiogenic shock in this population was reproducibly a grave prognostic indicator. That is, 15 (94%) of the 16 patients in cardiogenic shock at presentation died in hospital, and only 1 (5%) of the 18 patients without cardiogenic shock died (P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: Thus, we propose that, because patients presenting with AAMI, severe LM stenosis, and cardiogenic shock (left main shock syndrome) have such a grave prognosis regardless of management, conservative measures may be indicated.

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Autoregulation of the Escherichia coli heat shock response by the DnaK and DnaJ heat shock proteins.

All organisms respond to various forms of stress, including heat shock. The heat shock response has been universally conserved from bacteria to humans. In Escherichia coli the heat shock response is under the positive transcriptional control of the sigma 32 polypeptide and involves transient acceleration in the rate of synthesis of a few dozen genes. Three of the heat shock genes--dnaK, dnaJ, and grpE--are special because mutations in any one of these lead to constitutive levels of heat shock gene expression, implying that their products negatively autoregulate their own synthesis. The DnaK, DnaJ, and GrpE proteins have been known to function in various biological situations, including bacteriophage lambda replication. Here, we report the formation of an ATP hydrolysis-dependent complex of DnaJ, sigma 32, and DnaK proteins in vitro. This DnaJ-sigma 32-DnaK complex has been seen under different conditions, including glycerol gradient sedimentation and co-immunoprecipitation. The DnaK and DnaJ proteins in the presence of ATP can interfere with the efficient binding of sigma 32 to the RNA polymerase core, and are capable of disrupting a preexisting sigma 32-RNA polymerase complex. Our results suggest a possible mechanism for the autoregulation of the heat shock response.

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Heat shock pretreatment may protect against heatstroke-induced circulatory shock and cerebral ischemia by reducing oxidative stress and energy depletion.

The mechanisms underlying the protective effects of heat shock pretreatment on heatstroke remain unclear. Here we attempted to ascertain whether the possible occurrence of oxidative stress and energy depletion exhibited during heatstroke can be reduced by heat shock preconditioning. In the present study, colonic temperature, mean arterial pressure, heart rate, striatal levels of heat shock protein 72 (HSP72), local Po2, brain temperature, cerebral blood flow, cellular ischemia and damage markers, dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHBA), lipid peroxidation, glutathione, glutathione peroxidase and reductase activities, and ATP were assayed in normothermic control rats and in heatstroke rats with or without preconditioning 16 or 96 h before initiation of heatstroke. Heatstroke was induced by exposing the anesthetized rats to a high ambient temperature (Ta = 43 degrees C) until the moment at which MAP decreased from its peak level. Sublethal heat shock pretreatment 16 h before initiation of heatstroke, in addition to increasing striatal HSP72 levels, conferred significant protection against heatstroke-induced arterial hypotension, striatal ischemia and damage, increment of hydroxyl radical formation, lipid peroxidation, glutathione oxidation, and decrement of glutathione peroxidase activity and ATP. However, at 96 h after heat shock, when striatal HSP72 expression returned to basal levels, the above responses that occurred during onset of heatstroke were indistinguishable between the two groups. These results suggest that heat shock pretreatment induces HSP72 overexpression in striatum and confers protection against heatstroke-induced striatal ischemia and damage by reducing oxidative stress and energy depletion.

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Interspecific- and acclimation-induced variation in levels of heat-shock proteins 70 (hsp70) and 90 (hsp90) and heat-shock transcription factor-1 (HSF1) in congeneric marine snails (genus Tegula): implications for regulation of hsp gene expression.

In our previous studies of heat-shock protein (hsp) expression in congeneric marine gastropods of the genus Tegula, we observed interspecific and acclimation-induced variation in the temperatures at which heat-shock gene expression is induced (T(on)). To investigate the factors responsible for these inter- and intraspecific differences in T(on), we tested the predictions of the 'cellular thermometer' model for the transcriptional regulation of hsp expression. According to this model, hsps not active in chaperoning unfolded proteins bind to a transcription factor, heat-shock factor-1 (HSF1), thereby reducing the levels of free HSF1 that are available to bind to the heat-shock element, a regulatory element upstream of hsp genes. Under stress, hsps bind to denatured proteins, releasing HSF1, which can now activate hsp gene transcription. Thus, elevated levels of heat-shock proteins of the 40, 70 and 90 kDa families (hsp 40, hsp70 and hsp90, respectively) would be predicted to elevate T(on). Conversely, elevated levels of HSF1 would be predicted to decrease T(on). Following laboratory acclimation to 13, 18 and 23 degrees C, we used solid-phase immunochemistry (western analysis) to quantify endogenous levels of two hsp70 isoforms (hsp74 and hsp72), hsp90 and HSF1 in the low- to mid-intertidal species Tegula funebralis and in two subtidal to low-intertidal congeners, T. brunnea and T. montereyi. We found higher endogenous levels of hsp72 (a strongly heat-induced isoform) at 13 and 18 degrees C in T. funebralis in comparison with T. brunnea and T. montereyi. However, T. funebralis also had higher levels of HSF1 than its congeners. The higher levels of HSF1 in T. funebralis cannot, within the framework of the cellular thermometer model, account for the higher T(on) observed for this species, although they may explain why T. funebralis is able to induce the heat-shock response more rapidly than T. brunnea. However, the cellular thermometer model does appear to explain the cause of the increases in T(on) that occurred during warm acclimation of the two subtidal species, in which warm acclimation was accompanied by increased levels of hsp72, hsp74 and hsp90, whereas levels of HSF1 remained stable. T. funebralis, which experiences greater heat stress than its subtidal congeners, consistently had higher ratios of hsp72 to hsp74 than its congeners, although the sum of levels of the two isoforms was similar for all three species except at the highest acclimation temperature (23 degrees C). The ratio of hsp72 to hsp74 may provide a more accurate estimate of environmental heat stress than the total concentrations of both hsp70 isoforms.

Acclimatization↗

Effect of heat shock or cold shock treatment on the resistance of lactococcus lactis to freezing and lyophilization

This study investigated the effect of heat shock or cold shock treatment on the resistance of commercial Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis and L. lactis ssp. cremoris cheese starter bacteria to freezing and freeze-drying. The ability to withstand freezing at -60 degrees C for 24 h was variable among lactococci, but could be significantly (P < 0.05) improved in most strains by a 25-min heat shock at 42 degrees C (L. lactis ssp. lactis) or 39 degrees C (L. lactis ssp. cremoris) or by a 2-h cold shock at 10 degrees C. In addition, stress treatments that improved lactococcal cryotolerance significantly (P < 0.05) enhanced the resistance of most strains to lyophilization. Greater resistance to freezing or lyophilization was not detected when stress treatments were performed in broth that contained erythromycin, which indicated that stress-induced proteins were required for cell protection. Membrane fatty acid analysis of stress-treated cells suggested that enhanced resistance to freezing and lyophilization may be related to changes in cell membrane lipid composition. Heat-shocked cells had a higher 19:0 cyclopropane fatty acid content than control cells, and cold-shocked cells contained a lower ratio of saturated to unsaturated fatty acids. Other factors must also be involved in cell protection, however, because similar changes in membrane lipid composition were detected in strains whose resistance to freezing and lyophilization was not improved by heat or cold shock treatment. Copyright 1999 Academic Press.

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In vitro translation of Drosophila heat-shock and non--heat-shock mRNAs in heterologous and homologous cell-free systems.

Upon heat shock, Drosophila Kc cells still contain normal cellular messenger RNAs in the cytoplasm. The distribution of these 25 degrees C mRNAs between polysomes and the postpolysomal fraction of heat-shocked cells appears unaltered as compared with control cells. The translatability of these normal cellular messages isolated from heat-shocked and non--heat-shocked Kc cells is unaltered when analyzed by in vitro translation in the rabbit reticulocyte lysate. In contrast, homologous cell-free translation systems obtained from Kc cells effectively discriminate between the in vitro translation of normal cellular messages and heat-shock--specific mRNAs. In particular, a cell-free system from heat-shocked Drosophila Kc cells almost completely shuts down the translation of 25 degrees C messenger RNA species, whereas the translatability of heat-shock--specific messenger RNA appears to be unaffected.

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Biological effects of shock waves: kidney haemorrhage by shock waves in dogs--administration rate dependence.

The effect of shock waves on normal canine kidneys was examined in two groups of dogs whose right kidneys were exposed to 3000 shock waves generated with 20 kV and 40 nF in a Dornier HM II lithotripter. The groups differed only in the rate of shock wave administration which was 100 and 1 per second, respectively. Autopsy was performed 24 to 30 h later. Macroscopically and histologically, significantly more haemorrhages occurred in the kidney parenchyma if shock waves were administered at a rate of 100 waves per second. Haemorrhages were diffuse, the outer medulla was most heavily affected. The results show that kidney damage is dependent on the rate of shock wave administration. They argue against a direct shock wave effect and favor cavitation as the mechanism of shock wave damage although thermal effects cannot be excluded.

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Role of supraspinal systems in environmentally induced antinociception: effect of spinalization and decerebration on brief shock-induced and long shock-induced antinociception.

Prior research suggests that afferent nociceptive information can directly activate the opioid and nonopioid brainstem antinociceptive systems. Grau (1987a) has hypothesized that direct activation occurs when an organism is exposed to severe aversive stimuli and that forebrain systems mediate the activation of the antinociception systems when mild aversive stimuli are used. The present experiments tested this hypothesis by examining the impact of spinalization and decerebration on the antinociception observed after mild (3 0.75-s 1.0-mA shocks) and vs. severe (3 25-s 1.0-mA shocks) tailshocks. It was found that spinal transection eliminated the antinociception observed after both shock schedules, whereas decerebration blocked mild shock-induced, but not severe shock-induced, antinociception. Surprisingly, decerebration potentiated severe shock-induced antinociception. The opioid antagonist naltrexone had no effect on the antinociception observed after severe shock in sham or decerebrate rats.

Afferent Pathways↗

Molecular organization of RNP complexes containing P11 antigen in heat-shocked and non-heat-shocked Drosophila cells.

Immunofluorescence analysis of polytene chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster using the monoclonal antibody P11 has shown that after heat-shock the 38-kDa P11 antigen almost exclusively localizes at heat-shock puff 93D where it is part of giant puff-specific RNP granules. The biochemical experiments reported here show that, independent of growth temperature, the P11 antigen is a component of nuclear 10S RNP particles. The P11-containing 10S snRNPs can be stabilized in CsCl with 20 mM Mg2+ and possess a buoyant density of rho = 1.4 g/cm3. Sucrose gradient analysis of nuclear RNP extracts of heat-shocked Schneider's S-3 tissue culture cells shows that, after a 37 degree C heat-shock, the 10S RNPs associate with large RNP complexes sedimenting at 170-220S. The change in distribution is a temperature-dependent process with intermediate forms at 29 degrees C and 33 degrees C. In thermotolerant cells this observed change in distribution is strongly reduced. DEAE-Sephacel column chromatography and sucrose gradient analysis of nuclear RNP, followed by Northern blot analysis using 93D-specific probes of the TaqI repeat and immunoblotting experiments, show that the P11-containing 10S snRNPs are distinct from the RNP complexes formed by the 93D transcripts, suggesting an indirect association after heat-shock. Our experiments demonstrate that, despite the fact that a 37 degrees C heat-shock does not affect the overall integrity of nuclear RNP, it imposes changes on the general organization and interaction of the nuclear RNP population, resulting in the formation of large nuclear RNP aggregates and complexes. Such changes may be important for the survival strategy of the cell and for hnRNA processing and storage events which are effected by heat-shock.

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