The influence of membrane lipid composition and procaine on hyperthermic death of cells.
The influence of membrane lipid composition and procaine on hyperthermic death of cells.
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膜脂成分和普鲁卡因对细胞高温死亡的影响。
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1977
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M. Yatvin
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M. Yatvin
The mechanism of hyperthermic killing, a component of some cancer therapy, is not known. Cell-survival curves during hyperthermic exposure can be used to elucidate the effects of membrane modifying procedures on cell death. Experiments were designed to test whether procedures that were reported to increase membrane fluidity also resulted in increased killing on hyperthermic exposure. An E. coli K12 mutant, K1060, is used to predictably alter the degree and amount of unsaturated fatty acids incorporated into membranes. Changing from an 18:1 to an 18:3 unsaturated fatty acid increases killing. Decreasing the amount of unsaturated fatty acid cells incorporated by increasing growth temperature decreases killing. Procaine, a drug known to decrease membrane viscosity, increases heat killing. These data are most simply explained by the hypothesis that membrane disorganization occurs as a result of temperature increasing to a point where a lipid transition causes a membrane structural change, which results in cell-death.