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Journal articles on the topic "HeLa cells; Osmotic cell swelling; Taurine"

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Hall, J. A., J. Kirk, J. R. Potts, C. Rae, and K. Kirk. "Anion channel blockers inhibit swelling-activated anion, cation, and nonelectrolyte transport in HeLa cells." American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 271, no. 2 (August 1, 1996): C579—C588. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.1996.271.2.c579.

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The effect of osmotic cell swelling on the permeability of HeLa cells to a range of structurally unrelated solutes including taurine, sorbitol, thymidine, choline, and K+ (96Rb+) was investigated. For each solute tested, reduction in the osmolality of the medium from 300 to 200 mosmol/kgH2O caused a significant increase in the unidirectional influx rate. In each case, the osmotically activated transport component was nonsaturable up to external substrate concentrations of 50 mM. Inhibitors of the swelling-activated anion channel of HeLa cells [quinine, 4,4'-diisothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid, niflumate, 1,9-dideoxyforskolin, 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)benzoic acid (NPPB), and tamoxifen] blocked the osmotically activated influx of each of the different substrates tested, as well as the osmotically activated efflux of taurine and I-. Tamoxifen and NPPB were similarly effective at blocking the osmotically activated efflux of 96Rb+. The simplest of several hypotheses consistent with the data is that the osmotically activated transport of the different solutes tested here is via a swelling-activated anion-selective channel that has a significant cation permeability and a minimum pore diameter of 8-9 A.
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Stutzin, A., A. L. Eguiguren, L. P. Cid, and F. V. Sepulveda. "Modulation by extracellular Cl- of volume-activated organic osmolyte and halide permeabilities in HeLa cells." American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 273, no. 3 (September 1, 1997): C999—C1007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.1997.273.3.c999.

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Organic osmolyte and halide permeability pathways activated in epithelial HeLa cells by osmotically induced cell swelling were studied using electrophysiological and radiotracer efflux techniques. On hypotonic challenge, HeLa cells responded by activating an efflux pathway for [3H]taurine and a swelling-induced outwardly rectifying Cl- channel. Removal of extracellular Cl-, or its replacement by a less permeable anion, enhanced taurine efflux and decreased the inward current (Cl- efflux). The effect of Cl- removal on taurine efflux was not a consequence of changes in membrane potential. The degree of deactivation of the Cl- current at depolarized potentials was also Cl- dependent, suggesting that external Cl- is necessary for channel activity. The Cl- channel inhibitors 1,9-dideoxyforskolin, tamoxifen, and 4,4'- diisothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid (DIDS) inhibited swelling-activated taurine efflux, with DIDS being the most potent, at variance with the sensitivity of the Cl- channel. DIDS effect was dependent on external Cl-; concentrations of DIDS that inhibited 50% of taurine efflux were 0.2 and 4 microM at low and high Cl-, respectively. The results could be interpreted on the basis of separate pathways for swelling-activated taurine efflux and Cl- current differentially affected by Cl-. Alternatively, taurine and Cl- flux might occur through a common channel, with the two solutes interacting within the pore and being affected differentially by Cl- replacement.
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Numata, Tomohiro, Takahiro Shimizu, and Yasunobu Okada. "TRPM7 is a stretch- and swelling-activated cation channel involved in volume regulation in human epithelial cells." American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 292, no. 1 (January 2007): C460—C467. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00367.2006.

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Stretch- and swelling-activated cation (SSAC) channels play essential roles not only in sensing and transducing external mechanical stresses but also in regulating cell volume in living cells. However, the molecular nature of the SSAC channel has not been clarified. In human epithelial HeLa cells, single-channel recordings in cell-attached and inside-out patches revealed expression of a Mg2+- and Gd3+-sensitive nonselective cation channel that is exquisitely sensitive to membrane stretch. Whole cell recordings revealed that the macroscopic cationic currents exhibit transient receptor potential (TRP) melastatin (TRPM)7-like properties such as outward rectification and sensitivity to Mg2+ and Gd3+. The whole cell cation current was augmented by osmotic cell swelling. RT-PCR and Western blotting demonstrated molecular expression of TRPM7 in HeLa cells. Treatment with small interfering RNA (siRNA) targeted against TRPM7 led to abolition of single stretch-activated cation channel currents and of swelling-activated, whole cell cation currents in HeLa cells. The silencing of TRPM7 by siRNA reduced the rate of cell volume recovery after osmotic swelling. A similar inhibition of regulatory volume decrease was also observed when extracellular Ca2+ was removed or Gd3+ was applied. It is thus concluded that TRPM7 represents the SSAC channel endogenously expressed in HeLa cells and that, by serving as a swelling-induced Ca2+ influx pathway, it plays an important role in cell volume regulation.
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Tomassen, Sebastian F. B., Durk Fekkes, Hugo R. de Jonge, and Ben C. Tilly. "Osmotic swelling-provoked release of organic osmolytes in human intestinal epithelial cells." American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 286, no. 6 (June 2004): C1417—C1422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00468.2003.

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Human Intestine 407 cells respond to osmotic cell swelling by the activation of Cl−- and K+-selective ionic channels, as well as by stimulating an organic osmolyte release pathway readily permeable to taurine and phosphocholine. Unlike the activation of volume-regulated anion channels (VRAC), activation of the organic osmolyte release pathway shows a lag time of ∼30–60 s, and its activity persists for at least 8–12 min. In contrast to VRAC activation, stimulation of organic osmolyte release did not require protein tyrosine phosphorylation, active p21rho, or phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity and was insensitive to Cl− channel blockers. Treatment of the cells with putative organic anion transporter inhibitors reduced the release of taurine only partially or was found to be ineffective. The efflux was blocked by a subclass of organic cation transporter (OCT) inhibitors (cyanine-863 and decynium-22) but not by other OCT inhibitors (cimetidine, quinine, and verapamil). Brief treatment of the cells with phorbol esters potentiated the cell swelling-induced taurine efflux, whereas addition of the protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor GF109203X largely inhibited the response, suggesting that PKC is involved. Increasing the level of intracellular Ca2+ by using A-23187- or Ca2+-mobilizing hormones, however, did not affect the magnitude of the response. Taken together, the results indicate that the hypotonicity-induced efflux of organic osmolytes is independent of VRAC and involves a PKC-dependent step.
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Stutzin, Andrés, Rubén Torres, Macarena Oporto, Patricio Pacheco, Ana Luisa Eguiguren, L. Pablo Cid, and Francisco V. Sepúlveda. "Separate taurine and chloride efflux pathways activated during regulatory volume decrease." American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 277, no. 3 (September 1, 1999): C392—C402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.1999.277.3.c392.

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Organic osmolyte and halide permeability pathways activated in epithelial HeLa cells by cell swelling were studied by radiotracer efflux techniques and single-cell volume measurements. The replacement of extracellular Cl− by anions that are more permeant through the volume-activated Cl− channel, as indicated by electrophysiological measurements, significantly decreased taurine efflux. In the presence of less-permeant anions, an increase in taurine efflux was observed. Simultaneous measurement of the125I, used as a tracer for Cl−, and [3H]taurine efflux showed that the time courses for the two effluxes differed. In Cl−-rich medium the increase in I− efflux was transient, whereas that for taurine was sustained. Osmosensitive Cl− conductance, assessed by measuring changes in cell volume, increased rapidly after hypotonic shock. The influx of taurine was able to counteract Cl− conductance-dependent cell shrinkage but only ∼4 min after triggering cell swelling. This taurine-induced effect was blocked by DIDS. Differences in anion sensitivity, the time course of activation, and sensitivity to DIDS suggest that the main cell swelling-activated permeability pathways for taurine and Cl− are separate.
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Basavappa, Srisaila, Stine F. Pedersen, Nanna K. Jørgensen, J. Clive Ellory, and Else K. Hoffmann. "Swelling-Induced Arachidonic Acid Release via the 85-kDa cPLA2 in Human Neuroblastoma Cells." Journal of Neurophysiology 79, no. 3 (March 1, 1998): 1441–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.1998.79.3.1441.

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Basavappa, Srisaila, Stine F. Pedersen, Nanna K. Jørgensen, J. Clive Ellory, and Else K. Hoffmann. Swelling-induced arachidonic acid release via the 85-kDa cPLA2 in human neuroblastoma cells. J. Neurophysiol. 79: 1441–1449, 1998. Arachidonic acid or its metabolites have been implicated in the regulatory volume decrease (RVD) response after hypotonic cell swelling in some mammalian cells. The present study investigated the role of arachidonic acid (AA) during RVD in the human neuroblastoma cell line CHP-100. During the first nine minutes of hypo-osmotic exposure the rate of 3H-arachidonic acid (3H-AA) release increased to 250 ± 19% (mean ± SE, n = 22) as compared with cells under iso-osmotic conditions. This release was significantly inhibited after preincubation with AACOCF3, an inhibitor of the 85-kDa cytosolic phospholipase A2 (cPLA2). This indicates that a PLA2, most likely the 85-kDa cPLA2 is activated during cell swelling. In contrast, preincubation with U73122, an inhibitor of phospholipase C, did not affect the swelling-induced release of 3H-AA. Swelling-activated efflux of 36Cl and 3H-taurine were inhibited after preincubation with AACOCF3. Thus the swelling-induced activation of cPLA2 may be essential for stimulation of both 36Cl and 3H-taurine efflux during RVD. As the above observation could result from a direct effect of AA or its metabolite leukotriene D4 (LTD4), the effects of these agents were investigated on swelling-induced 36Cl and 3H-taurine effluxes. In the presence of high concentrations of extracellular AA, the swelling-induced efflux of 36Cl and 3H-taurine were inhibited significantly. In contrast, addition of exogenous LTD4 had no significant effect on the swelling-activated 36Cl efflux. Furthermore, exogenous AA increased cytosolic calcium levels as measured in single cells loaded with the calcium sensitive dye Fura-2. On the basis of these results we propose that cell swelling activates phospholipase A2 and that this activation via an increased production of AA or some AA metabolite(s) other than LTD4 is essential for RVD.
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Avella, Martine, Olivier Ducoudret, Didier F. Pisani, and Philippe Poujeol. "Swelling-activated transport of taurine in cultured gill cells of sea bass: physiological adaptation and pavement cell plasticity." American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 296, no. 4 (April 2009): R1149—R1160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpregu.90615.2008.

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We have investigated volume-activated taurine transport and ultrastructural swelling response of sea bass gill cells in culture, assuming that euryhaline fish may have developed particularly efficient mechanisms of salinity adaptation. In vivo, when sea basses were progressively transferred from seawater to freshwater, we noticed a decrease in blood osmotic pressure. When gill cells in culture were subjected to 30% hypotonic shock, we observed a five-fold stimulation of [3H]taurine efflux. This transport was reduced by various anion channel inhibitors with the following efficiency: 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)benzoic acid (NPPB) > niflumic acid > DIDS = diphenylamine-2-carboxylic acid. With polarized gill cells in culture, the hypotonic shock produced a five-fold stimulation of apical taurine transport, whereas basolateral exit was 25 times higher. Experiments using ionomycin, thapsigargin, BAPTA-AM, or removal of extracellular calcium suggested that taurine transport was regulated by external calcium. The inhibitory effects of lanthanum and streptomycin support Ca2+ entry through mechanosensitive Ca2+ channels. Branchial cells also showed hypotonically activated anionic currents sensitive to DIDS and NPPB. Similar pharmacology and time course suggested the potential existence of a common pathway for osmosensitive taurine and Cl− efflux through volume-sensitive organic osmolyte and anion channels. A three-dimensional structure study revealed that respiratory gill cells began to swell only 15 s after hypoosmotic shock. Apical microridges showed membrane outfoldings: the cell surface became smoother with a progressive disappearance of ridges. Therefore, osmotic swelling may not actually induce membrane stretch per se, inasmuch as the microridges may provide a reserve of surface area. This work demonstrates mechanisms of functional and morphological plasticity of branchial cells during osmotic stress.
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Lambert, Ian Henry, Jane Vendelbo Jensen, and Per Amstrup Pedersen. "mTOR ensures increased release and reduced uptake of the organic osmolyte taurine under hypoosmotic conditions in mouse fibroblasts." American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 306, no. 11 (June 1, 2014): C1028—C1040. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00005.2014.

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Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a serine/threonine kinase that modulates translation in response to growth factors and alterations in nutrient availability following hypoxia and DNA damage. Here we demonstrate that mTOR activity in Ehrlich Lettré ascites (ELA) cells is transiently increased within minutes following osmotic cell swelling and that inhibition of phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphatase (PTEN) counteracts the upstream phosphatidylinositol kinase and potentiates mTOR activity. PTEN inhibition concomitantly potentiates swelling-induced taurine release via the volume-sensitive transporter for organic osmolytes and anion channels (VSOAC) and enhances swelling-induced inhibition of taurine uptake via the taurine-specific transporter (TauT). Chronic osmotic stress, i.e., exposure to hypotonic or hypertonic media for 24 h, reduces and increases mTOR activity in ELA cells, respectively. Using rapamycin, we demonstrate that mTOR inhibition is accompanied by reduction in TauT activity and increase in VSOAC activity in cells expressing high (NIH3T3 fibroblasts) or low (ELA) amounts of mTOR protein. The effect of mTOR inhibition on TauT activity reflects reduced TauT mRNA, TauT protein abundance, and an overall reduction in protein synthesis, whereas the effect on VSOAC is mimicked by catalase inhibition and correlates with reduced catalase mRNA abundance. Hence, mTOR activity favors loss of taurine following hypoosmotic cell swelling, i.e., release via VSOAC and uptake via TauT during acute hypotonic exposure is potentiated and reduced, respectively, by phosphorylation involving mTOR and/or the kinases upstream to mTOR. Decrease in TauT activity during chronic hypotonic exposure, on the other hand, involves reduction in expression/activity of TauT and enzymes in antioxidative defense.
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Thoroed, S., M. Soergaard, E. Cragoe, and K. Fugelli. "The osmolality-sensitive taurine channel in flounder erythrocytes is strongly stimulated by noradrenaline under hypo-osmotic conditions." Journal of Experimental Biology 198, no. 2 (February 1, 1995): 311–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.198.2.311.

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Stimulation of flounder erythrocytes by noradrenaline under isosmotic conditions (330 mosmol kg-1) and physiological Na+ concentration (113 mmol l-1) caused swelling of the cells. The EC50 of this cell swelling was 0.65 µmol l-1 noradrenaline. The effect of the noradrenaline-induced cell swelling on the taurine channel under isosmotic conditions was negligible. However, when the cells were stimulated by noradrenaline (1.0 µmol l-1) before, simultaneously with or after reduction of osmolality (255 mosmol kg-1), the volume regulatory efflux of taurine mediated by the taurine channel was transiently accelerated. The rate coefficient for taurine efflux was more than four times higher than in osmolality-stimulated cells not exposed to noradrenaline. The present paper deals with the accelerating effect of noradrenaline on the taurine channel under hypo-osmotic conditions and the lack of effect of noradrenaline-induced cell swelling on the channel under iso-osmotic conditions. Noradrenaline initiated the cell swelling by interacting with ß-receptors which appeared to be more related to the mammalian ß1-receptors than to the ß2-receptors. The receptor interaction activated the adenylate cyclase system and, in the presence of 1.0 µmol l-1 noradrenaline, the cellular cyclic AMP concentration increased about 23 times. Noradrenaline also stimulated the Na+/H+ and Cl-/HCO3- antiporters and this affected the extracellular pH as well as the cell volume. Depending on the extracellular Na+ concentration, the incubation medium was acidified (113 mmol l-1 Na+) or alkalized (2.7 mmol l-1 Na+). Under these two conditions, the accelerating effects of noradrenaline on the taurine efflux were of similar magnitude. Similar effects on the cell volume, the extracellular pH and the volume regulatory taurine efflux were obtained in the presence of the cyclic AMP analogue 8-bromo-cyclic AMP. Under hypo-osmotic conditions in the absence of noradrenaline, the cellular level of cyclic AMP was not elevated. There was no significant positive correlation between the water content of the cells (cell volume) under different conditions in the presence or absence of noradrenaline and the state of activation of the osmolality-sensitive taurine channel. We conclude that the mechanism(s) which activate(s) the osmolality-sensitive taurine channel in flounder erythrocytes is transiently and strongly accelerated by noradrenaline, but not triggered by the noradrenaline-induced events. The acceleration does not appear to be due to increased activity of the antiporters, but to increased cellular levels of cyclic AMP.
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Pedersen, Stine F., Kristian A. Poulsen, and Ian H. Lambert. "Roles of phospholipase A2 isoforms in swelling- and melittin-induced arachidonic acid release and taurine efflux in NIH3T3 fibroblasts." American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 291, no. 6 (December 2006): C1286—C1296. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00325.2005.

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Osmotic swelling of NIH3T3 mouse fibroblasts activates a bromoenol lactone (BEL)-sensitive taurine efflux, pointing to the involvement of a Ca2+-independent phospholipase A2 (iPLA2) (Lambert IH. J Membr Biol 192: 19–32, 2003). We report that taurine efflux from NIH3T3 cells was not only increased by cell swelling but also decreased by cell shrinkage. Arachidonic acid release to the cell exterior was similarly decreased by shrinkage yet not detectably increased by swelling. NIH3T3 cells were found to express cytosolic calcium-dependent cPLA2-IVA, cPLA2-IVB, cPLA2-IVC, iPLA2-VIA, iPLA2-VIB, and secretory sPLA2-V. Arachidonic acid release from swollen cells was partially inhibited by BEL and by the sPLA2-inhibitor manoalide. Cell swelling elicited BEL-sensitive arachidonic acid release from the nucleus, to which iPLA2-VIA localized. Exposure to the bee venom peptide melittin, to increase PLA2 substrate availability, potentiated arachidonic acid release and osmolyte efflux in a volume-sensitive, 5-lipoxygenase-dependent, cyclooxygenase-independent manner. Melittin-induced arachidonic acid release was inhibited by manoalide and slightly but significantly by BEL. A BEL-sensitive, melittin-induced PLA2 activity was also detected in lysates devoid of sPLA2, indicating that both sPLA2 and iPLA2 contribute to arachidonic acid release in vivo. Swelling-induced taurine efflux was inhibited potently by BEL and partially by manoalide, whereas the reverse was true for melittin-induced taurine efflux. It is suggested that in NIH3T3 cells, swelling-induced taurine efflux is dependent at least in part on arachidonic acid release by iPLA2 and possibly also by sPLA2, whereas melittin-induced taurine efflux is dependent on arachidonic acid release by sPLA2 and, to a lesser extent, iPLA2.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "HeLa cells; Osmotic cell swelling; Taurine"

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Hall, James Anthony. "Swelling-activated transport of diverse solutes in mammalian cells." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320647.

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Book chapters on the topic "HeLa cells; Osmotic cell swelling; Taurine"

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Lambert, Ian H., and Francisco V. Sepúlveda. "Swelling-Induced Taurine Efflus from Hela Cells: Cell Volume Regulation." In Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 487–95. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46838-7_54.

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