One of the most life-threatening complications of prostate cancer is skeletal metastasis. In order to develop treatment for metastasis, it is important to understand its molecular mechanisms. Our work in this field has drawn parallels between hematopoietic stem cell and prostate cancer homing to the marrow. Our recent work demonstrated that annexin II expressed by osteoblasts and endothelial ce...

We have purified annexin V, a monomeric 35-kDa protein, from rat kidney using calcium-dependent phospholipid chromatography. The identity of annexin V was confirmed by immunoblot analysis using monospecific anti-annexin V antibody. Large single crystals of annexin V in the presence of calcium have been grown from ammonium sulfate under a variety of conditions, with an optimum pH range of 7.5-8....

We fabricated streptavidin nanoarray using annexin A5 two-dimensional crystal as a template. demonstrate specific binding of biotinylated molecules to the proteins in nanoarray.

Radionuclide detection of apoptosis with of (99m)Tc-Hynic-rh-Annexin V scintigraphy is an effective tool for in vivo visualisation and monitoring of apoptosis in various malignant tumour. Early therapy-induced increase of the tumour tracer uptake correlates with favourable outcome, whereas stable or decreased uptake correlates with stable disease or tumour progression. Therefore sequential (99m...

Cell-free extracts of Xenopus eggs efficiently initiate and complete semiconservative DNA replication of exogenously added plasmid DNA. DNA replication in such extracts can be neutralized by a monoclonal antibody (D1/274.5) against human annexin II. Specific immunodepletion of Xenopus annexin II from the egg extracts results in loss of DNA replicative ability. Immunodepletion of annexin II does...

One of the earliest events in programmed cell death is the externalization of phosphatidylserine, a membrane phospholipid normally restricted to the inner leaflet of the lipid bilayer. Annexin V, an endogenous human protein with a high affinity for membrane bound phosphatidylserine, can be used in vitro to detect apoptosis before other well described morphologic or nuclear changes associated wi...

The cellular and subcellular localizations of annexins I, II, VI and XIII in the rabbit intestine, liver and pancreas were studied by performing immunofluorescence labeling on thin frozen tissue sections using specific monoclonal antibodies. The expression of annexins was found to be finely regulated. Annexins XIII and I were expressed exclusively in the small intestine and the colon, respectiv...

Phagocytic clearance of apoptotic leukocytes plays an important role in the resolution of inflammation. The glucocorticoid-inducible protein annexin 1 and annexin 1-derived peptides show potent anti-inflammatory responses in acute and chronic inflammation. In this study, we report that the annexin 1-derived peptide (Ac(2-26)) significantly stimulates nonphlogistic phagocytosis of apoptotic poly...

Annexin VI has been demonstrated previously to be a marker for hepatic endosomes. By western blotting with an affinity purified anti-annexin VI antibody it was shown that annexin VI was present in the three morphologically and functionally different endosomal fractions from rat liver. We have quantified the gold-labeled endosomes by immunoelectron microscopy in ultrathin Lowicryl sections of ra...

The energetics and kinetics of the interaction of heparin with the Ca2+ and phospholipid binding protein annexin V, was examined and the minimum oligosaccharide sequence within heparin that binds annexin V was identified. Affinity chromatography studies confirmed the Ca2+ dependence of this binding interaction. Analysis of the data obtained from surface plasmon resonance afforded a Kd of approx...