PubMed · 11070831
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H U Weier. 2001. Quantitative DNA fiber mapping.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0091-679x(01)64005-6
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Elastic vesicles are the most novel development in vesicular systems design for dermal and transdermal drug delivery. However, interactions between these vesicles and human skin are not yet fully understood. In this study, the in vivo and in vitro interactions between elastic-, rigid vesicles and micelles with human skin were investigated. Vesicle and micelle solutions were applied onto human skin in vitro and in vivo. Subsequently, a series of tape strippings were performed, which were visualised by freeze fracture electron microscopy (FFEM). The results showed no ultrastructural changes in skin treated with rigid vesicles. Skin treated with elastic vesicles, however, showed a fast partitioning of intact vesicles into the deeper layers of the stratum corneum (SC), where they accumulated in channel-like regions. Only little vesicle material was found in the deepest layers of the SC, suggesting that the partitioning of intact vesicles from the SC into the viable epidermis is unlikely to happen. Treatment with micelles resulted in rough, irregular fracture planes. Similar results were obtained in vitro and in vivo, indicating an excellent in vitro/in vivo correlation. These results support the hypothesis that elastic vesicles have superior characteristics to rigid vesicles for the interaction with human skin. Elastic vesicles and micelles demonstrated very different interactions with human skin and hence probably also have different mechanisms of action for the enhancement of drug transport.
enol-Pyruvaldehyde (ePY or 2-hydroxypropenal, O=C(H)-C(OH)=CH(2)) a transient intermediate in the alkaline decomposition of the triosephosphates to methylglyoxal is now observed by UV and (1)H NMR spectroscopy as the immediate product of the methylglyoxal synthetase (MGS) reaction: dihydroxyacetone-P --> P(i) + ePY --> methylglyoxal (MG). Analysis of ePY formed from 1-(13)C- and (1R, 3S) -[1,3-(2)H]-DHAP establishes the stereochemical course of its formation by MGS. Its rate of ketonization is much too slow to be in the sequence required for the assay of MGS by coupling of the MG produced to glyoxalase I (Glx I): MG + glutathione (GSH) --> (S)-lactylglutathione (D-LG). Instead, ketonization occurs by way of the hemithioacetal (HTA) formed between ePY and GSH, and could be either an enzymatic function of Glx I or occur nonenzymatically at an activated rate. Enzymatic ketonization was ruled out because the methyl group of D-LG formed from specifically labeled ePY is achiral. Chemical ketonization of ePY is activated by general bases, such as acetate, and by thiols such as GSH and 2-mercaptoethanol, which disrupt its stabilizing double bond conjugation as hemithioacetal (HTA) adducts. 2-Mercaptoacetate combines both functions, acting as the HTA adduct of ePY with the appended carboxylate group presumably positioned to promote abstraction of the enol proton and protonation of the enolate carbon at an accelerated rate. In the MGS-Glx I system (dihydroxyacetone-P --> ePY, ePY + GSH --> GS-ePY, GS-ePY --> GS-MG, GS-MG --> D-LG), the nonenzymatic 2nd and 3rd steps describe the catalytic role of GSH in the critical ketonization process and set the stage for its participation in the glyoxalase system.
We report the selective and real-time detection of label-free DNA using an electronic readout. Microfabricated silicon field-effect sensors were used to directly monitor the increase in surface charge when DNA hybridizes on the sensor surface. The electrostatic immobilization of probe DNA on a positively charged poly-l-lysine layer allows hybridization at low ionic strength where field-effect sensing is most sensitive. Nanomolar DNA concentrations can be detected within minutes, and a single base mismatch within 12-mer oligonucleotides can be distinguished by using a differential detection technique with two sensors in parallel. The sensors were fabricated by standard silicon microtechnology and show promise for future electronic DNA arrays and rapid characterization of nucleic acid samples. This approach demonstrates the most direct and simple translation of genetic information to microelectronics.