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D A Kaiser

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PubMed1991

Shear bond strength of two resin adhesives for acid-etched metal prostheses.

This study compared the shear bond strength of Panavia EX and Comspan Opaque adhesive resins with electrolytically etched or sandblasted Rexillium III or Litecast B metals bonded to extracted teeth. An analysis of variance revealed that there is no difference in bonding strength among etched or sandblasted Rexillium III metal with either Panavia EX or Comspan Opaque resins. With Litecast B metal, sandblasting produced a greater bond strength than etching with Panavia Ex resin (38.19 MPa sandblasted; 30.53 MPa etched). Conversely, Comspan Opaque resin had a value of 30.10 MPa etched and 15.40 MPa sandblasted. The etched Rexillium III and Panavia EX resins recorded a greater bond strength (38.38 MPa) than Comspan Opaque resin (27.83 MPa) or sandblasted Rexillium III metal (Rexillium III 34.74 MPa; Comspan Opaque 20.39 MPa) and Litecast B metal (Panavia EX 38.19 MPa; Comspan Opaque 15.40 MPa). Eighty percent of the failures occurred at the cement-metal interface with both cements.

Acid Etching, Dental↗
PubMed1991

Comparison of resistance features for complex amalgam restorations.

This study evaluated the resistance provided to complex Dispersalloy amalgam restorations by pins (Group 1), amalgapins (Group 2), and a peripheral shelf or shoulder (Group 3) or in combinations of pins plus peripheral shelf (Group 4), or amalgapins plus peripheral shelf (Group 5). The occlusal surfaces of 50 extracted maxillary molar teeth were ground to a flat surface 2 mm occlusal to the CEJ, and the roots were matched and embedded in acrylic resin 2 mm apical to the CEJ. The greatest faciolingual and mesiodistal dimensions of each tooth at the level of preparation were recorded and these two measurements were multiplied to give a product for each specimen. The teeth were then sorted by tooth sizes and equally distributed among the five groups. Each group of flattened teeth received a different resistance form configuration. Amalgam was condensed using a matrix; the bands and excess amalgam were removed 24 hours later and each amalgam "occlusal" surface was ground flat to standardize the restoration at a 4 mm occlusal height. A 1 mm 45 degrees bevel was prepared on the facio-occlusal angle of the amalgam, and each specimen was loaded in compression at 45 degrees in an Instron at a crosshead speed of 1 mm/min. The groups and their mean (SD) failure loads in Newtons were: Group 1: 1515 (274); Group 2: 1521 (244); Group 3: 578 (175); Group 4: 1199 (229); and Group 5: 1691 (298). A one-factor ANOVA and a Tukey B post-hoc analysis showed no differences between Groups 1, 2 and 5.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Analysis of Variance↗
PubMed1990

Identification of functional regions on the tail of Acanthamoeba myosin-II using recombinant fusion proteins. I. High resolution epitope mapping and characterization of monoclonal antibody binding sites.

We used a series of COOH-terminally deleted recombinant myosin molecules to map precisely the binding sites of 22 monoclonal antibodies along the tail of Acanthamoeba myosin-II. These antibodies bind to 14 distinguishable epitopes, some separated by less than 10 amino acids. The positions of the binding sites visualized by electron microscopy agree only approximately with the physical positions of these sites on the alpha-helical coiled-coil tail. On the other hand, the epitope map agrees precisely with competitive binding studies: all antibodies that share an epitope compete with each other for binding to myosin. Antibodies with adjacent epitopes can compete with each other at linear distances up to 5 or 6 nm, and many antibodies that bind 3-7-nm apart can enhance the binding of each other to myosin. Most of the antibodies that bind to the distal 37 nm of the tail disrupt assembly of octameric minifilaments and, depending upon the exact location of the binding site, stop assembly at specific steps yielding, for example, monomers, antiparallel dimers, parallel dimers or antiparallel tetramers. The effects of these antibodies on assembly identify sites on the tail that are required for individual steps in minifilament assembly. Experiments on the assembly of truncated myosin-II tails have revealed a complementary group of sites that participate in the assembly reactions (Sinard, J.H., D.L. Rimm, and T.D. Pollard. 1990. J. Cell Biol. 111:2417-2426). Antibodies that bind to the distal tail but do not affect assembly appear to have a low affinity for myosin-II. Antibodies that bind to the proximal 50 nm of the tail do not inhibit the assembly of minifilaments. Many antibodies that bind to the tail of myosin-II, even some that have no obvious effect on minifilament assembly, can inhibit the actomyosin ATPase activity and the contraction of an actin gel formed in crude extracts. An antibody that binds between amino acids 1447 and 1467 inhibits the phosphorylation of serine residues distal to residue 1483.

Acanthamoeba↗
PubMed1989

Characterization of renatured profilin purified by urea elution from poly-L-proline agarose columns.

We present evidence that native profilin can be purified from cellular extracts of Acanthamoeba, Dictyostelium, and human platelets by affinity chromatography on poly-L-proline agarose. After applying cell extracts and washing the column with 3 M urea, homogeneous profilin is eluted by increasing the urea concentration to 6-8 M. Acanthamoeba profilin-I and profilin-II can subsequently be separated by cation exchange chromatography. The yield of Acanthamoeba profilin is twice that obtained by conventional methods. Several lines of evidence show that the profilins fully renature after removal of the urea by dialysis: 1) dialyzed Acanthamoeba and human profilins rebind quantitatively to poly-L-proline and bind to actin in the same way as native, conventionally purified profilin without urea treatment; 2) dialyzed profilins form 3-D crystals under the same conditions as native profilins; 3) dialyzed Acanthamoeba profilin-I has an NMR spectrum identical with that of native profilin-I; and 4) dialyzed human and Acanthamoeba profilins inhibit actin polymerization. We report the discovery of profilin in Dictyostelium cell extracts using the same method. Based on these observations we conclude that urea elution from poly-L-proline agarose followed by renaturation will be generally useful for preparing profilins from a wide variety of cells. Perhaps also of general use is the finding that either myosin-II or alpha-actinin in crude cell extracts can be bound selectively to the poly-L-proline agarose column depending on the ionic conditions used to equilibrate the column. We have purified myosin-II from both Acanthamoeba and Dictyostelium cell extracts and alpha-actinin from Acanthamoeba cell extracts in the appropriate buffers. These proteins are retained as complexes with actin by the agarose and not by a specific interaction with poly-L-proline. They can be eluted by dissociating the complexes with ATP and separated from actin by gel filtration if necessary.

Acanthamoeba↗
PubMed1989

Acanthamoeba actin and profilin can be cross-linked between glutamic acid 364 of actin and lysine 115 of profilin.

Acanthamoeba profilin was cross-linked to actin via a zero-length isopeptide bond using carbodiimide. The covalently linked 1:1 complex was purified and treated with cyanogen bromide. This cleaves actin into small cyanogen bromide (CNBr) peptides and leaves the profilin intact owing to its lack of methionine. Profilin with one covalently attached actin CNBr peptide was purified by gel filtration followed by gel electrophoresis and electroblotting on polybase-coated glass-fiber membranes. Since the NH2 terminus of profilin is blocked, Edman degradation gave only the sequence of the conjugated actin CNBr fragment beginning with Trp-356. The profilin-actin CNBr peptide conjugate was digested further with trypsin and the cross-linked peptide identified by comparison with the tryptic peptide pattern obtained from carbodiimide-treated profilin. Amino-acid sequence analysis of the cross-linked tryptic peptides produced two residues at each cycle. Their order corresponds to actin starting at Trp-356 and profilin starting at Ala-94. From the absence of the phenylthiohydantoin-amino acid residues in specific cycles, we conclude that actin Glu-364 is linked to Lys-115 in profilin. Experiments with the isoforms of profilin I and profilin II gave identical results. The cross-linked region in profilin is homologous with sequences in the larger actin filament capping proteins fragmin and gelsolin.

Acanthamoeba↗
PubMed1989

Technique to disguise the metal margin of the metal/ceramic crown.

When it is necessary to place casting margins subgingivally, it is important that they not violate the biologic width. A technique utilizing nonmedicated retraction cord during preparation is described which has several advantages. It results in bloodless, trauma-free tooth preparation and concealment of the metal margin without biologic width impingement or gingival recession. A resilient, unattached gingival margin free of inflammation is critical for the success of this technique. The physical and chemical properties of healthy gingival collagen and ground substance are briefly discussed along with the disadvantages of using this technique in the presence of gingival inflammation.

Crowns↗
PubMed1988

Structural and immunological characterization of the myosin-like 110-kD subunit of the intestinal microvillar 110K-calmodulin complex: evidence for discrete myosin head and calmodulin-binding domains.

The actin bundle within each microvillus of the intestinal brush border is tethered laterally to the membrane by spirally arranged bridges. These bridges are thought to be composed of a protein complex consisting of a 110-kD subunit and multiple molecules of bound calmodulin (CM). Recent studies indicate that this complex, termed 110K-CM, is myosin-like with respect to its actin binding and ATPase properties. In this study, possible structural similarity between the 110-kD subunit and myosin was examined using two sets of mAbs; one was generated against Acanthamoeba myosin II and the other against the 110-kD subunit of avian 110K-CM. The myosin II mAbs had been shown previously to be cross-reactive with skeletal muscle myosin, with the epitope(s) localized to the 50-kD tryptic fragment of the subfragment-1 (S1) domain. The 110K mAbs (CX 1-5) reacted with the 110-kD subunit as well as with the heavy chain of skeletal but not with that of smooth or brush border myosin. All five of these 110K mAbs reacted with the 25-kD, NH2-terminal tryptic fragment of chicken skeletal S1, which contains the ATP-binding site of myosin. Similar tryptic digestion of 110K-CM revealed that these five mAbs all reacted with a 36-kD fragment of 110K (as well as larger 90- and 54-kD fragments) which by photoaffinity labeling was shown to contain the ATP-binding site(s) of the 110K subunit. CM binding to these same tryptic digests of 110K-CM revealed that only the 90-kD fragment retained both ATP- and CM-binding domains. CM binding was observed to several tryptic fragments of 60, 40, 29, and 18 kD, none of which contain the myosin head epitopes. These results suggest structural similarity between the 110K and myosin S1, including those domains involved in ATP- and actin binding, and provide additional evidence that 110K-CM is a myosin. These studies also support the results of Coluccio and Bretscher (1988. J. Cell Biol. 106:367-373) that the calmodulin-binding site(s) and the myosin head region of the 110-kD subunit lie in discrete functional domains of the molecule.

Acanthamoeba↗
PubMed1987

Molecular cloning of cDNA for CENP-B, the major human centromere autoantigen.

We have isolated a series of overlapping cDNA clones for approximately 95% of the mRNA that encodes CENP-B, the 80-kD human centromere autoantigen recognized by patients with anticentromere antibodies. The cloned sequences encode a polypeptide with an apparent molecular mass appropriate for CENP-B. This polypeptide and CENP-B share three non-overlapping epitopes. The first two are defined by monoclonal antibodies elicited by injection of cloned fusion protein. Epitope 1 corresponds to a major antigenic site recognized by the anticentromere autoantibody used to obtain the original clone. Epitope 2 is a novel one not recognized by the autoantibody. These epitopes were shown to be distinct both by competitive binding experiments and by their presence or absence on different subcloned portions of the fusion protein. The third independent epitope, recognized by a subset of anticentromere-positive patient sera, maps to a region substantially closer to the amino terminus of the fusion protein. DNA and RNA blot analyses indicate that CENP-B is unrelated to CENP-C, a 140-kD centromere antigen also recognized by these antisera. CENP-B is the product of a 2.9-kb mRNA that is encoded by a single genetic locus. This mRNA is far too short to encode a polypeptide the size of CENP-C. The carboxy terminus of CENP-B contains two long domains comprised almost entirely of glutamic and aspartic acid residues. These domains may be responsible for anomalous migration of CENP-B on SDS-polyacrylamide gels, since the true molecular mass of CENP-B is approximately 65 kD, 15 kD less than the apparent molecular mass deduced from gel electrophoresis. Quite unexpectedly, immunofluorescence analysis using antibodies specific for CENP-B reveals that the levels of antigen vary widely between chromosomes.

Amino Acid Sequence↗
PubMed1986

Purification and characterization of two isoforms of Acanthamoeba profilin.

Acanthamoeba profilin purified according to E. Reichstein and E.D. Korn (1979, J. Biol. Chem. 254:6174-6179) consists of two isoforms (profilin-I and-II) with approximately the same molecular weight and reactivity to a monoclonal antibody but different isoelectric points and different mobilities on carboxymethyl-agarose chromatography and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. The isoelectric points of profilin-I is approximately 5.5 and that of profilin-II is greater than or equal to 9.0. Tryptic peptides from the two proteins are substantially different, which suggests that there are major differences in their sequences. At similar concentrations, both profilins prolong the lag phase at the outset of spontaneous polymerization and inhibit the extent of polymerization. Both forms also inhibit elongation weakly at the barbed end and strongly at the pointed end of actin filaments.

Actins↗
PubMed1986

Characterization of monoclonal antibodies to Acanthamoeba myosin-I that cross-react with both myosin-II and low molecular mass nuclear proteins.

We characterized nine monoclonal antibodies that bind to the heavy chain of Acanthamoeba myosin-IA. Eight of these antibodies bind to myosin-IB and eight cross-react with Acanthamoeba myosin-II. All but one of the antibodies bind to a 30-kD chymotryptic peptide of myosin-IA that derives from the COOH terminus of the molecule, and to tryptic peptides as small as 17 kD, hence these epitopes are clustered closely together on the heavy chain. None of the antibodies prevent heavy chain phosphorylation by myosin-I heavy chain kinase. One antibody inhibits the K+-EDTA ATPase activity and three antibodies inhibit the actin-activated Mg++-ATPase activity of myosin-I under the set of conditions that we tested. When fluorescent antibody staining of both whole cells and isolated nuclei is done, several of these monoclonal antibodies react strongly with nuclei. These antibodies also stain the cytoplasmic matrix, especially the cortex near the plasma membrane. All nine of the monoclonal antibodies bind to polypeptides of 30-34 kD that are highly enriched in nuclei isolated from Acanthamoeba. There is no myosin-I in the isolated nuclei, so the 30-34-kD polypeptides, not myosin-I, are responsible for the nuclear staining.

Amoeba↗
PubMed1985

Marginal distortion of cast restorations induced by cementation.

Eleven full veneer crowns were directly constructed on brass stylized dies. Crown marginal openings and vertical heights were measured before and after cementation with zinc phosphate cement. The following results were established. The marginal opening of complete veneer gold crowns increased during cementation. The vertical heights of well fitting crowns also increased significantly after cementation.

Crowns↗