Biomedical subjects
D Bothe
Publications and source records attributed to D Bothe.
The role of reactive oxygen species in the antitumor activity of bleomycin.
Calf thymus DNA was incubated with bleomycin and FeCl3 in the presence of isolated rat liver microsomal NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase, cytochrome b5 and NADH which catalyze redox cycling of the bleomycin-Fe-complex. Furthermore, isolated rat liver nuclei were incubated with bleomycin, FeCl3 and NADH, a system in which redox cycling of bleomycin-Fe leads to DNA damage. In both systems free bases from DNA were released. Furthermore, 8-hydroxy-guanine was also found in the supernatant. On the other hand, 8-hydroxy-deoxyguanosine was detected in DNA of cell nuclei indicating that hydroxylation of the guanine molecule occurred in intact DNA. The release of bases correlated with the release of malondialydehyde as well as with NADH and oxygen consumption. These results indicate that NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase catalyzes redox cycling of the bleomycin-Fe-complex which results in the formation of reactive oxygen species which oxidize deoxyribose as well as bases of DNA. Both mechanisms may contribute to the cytotoxic and cytostatic effects of bleomycin observed in intact cells.
A sodium dodecyl sulfate-gradient gel electrophoresis system that separates polypeptides in the molecular weight range of 1500 to 100,000.
A sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gradient gel system is described. It combines a linear gradient in polyacrylamide from 10.2 to 30.2% in the separating gel and the discontinuous ammediol/glycine buffer system suggested by Bury (A. F. Bury, 1981, J. Chromatogr. 213, 491-500). This urea-free electrophoretic system provides high resolution and clean separation patterns of proteins and polypeptides with molecular weights from 1500 to 100,000. It is especially suited for studying complex mixtures of proteins and proteolytic fragments, in particular with regard to immunoelectrotransfer blot techniques.