发明名称 |
ACCUMULATION OF HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS FOR EVALUATING BIOLOGICAL DAMAGE DUE TO CHRONIC EXPOSURE OF AN ORGANISM TO SUBLETHAL LEVELS OF POLLUTANTS |
摘要 |
Method of detecting chronic exposure of an organism to a pollutant, and for evaluating biological damage due to chronic exposure to sublethal levels of pollutants and kits for carrying out the method are disclosed. The methods comprise: (a) sampling at least one organism in order to determine whether it has been chronically exposed to a sublethal concentration of one or more pollutants in its environment, under sampling conditions that do not induceany additional heat shock protein (hsp) response in the organism; (b) obtaining a sample of cells or secretions of said organism, suspected of having elevated levels of heat shock proteins and solubilizing the heat shock proteins in the sample; and (c) measuring the concentration of a heat shock protein selected from hsp 70, hsp 60 and ubiquitin, in said sample. The invention also provides methods for evaluating biological damage due to chronic exposure to a sublethal concentration of one or more pollutants comprising detecting chronic exposure of the organism by the above method and then comparing the measured concentration of hsp to a predetermined standard calibration curve which correlates hsp concentration with physiological impairment of growth or reproductive processes, and kits for carrying out the methods. |
申请公布号 |
CA1335558(C) |
申请公布日期 |
1995.05.16 |
申请号 |
CA19890611374 |
申请日期 |
1989.09.14 |
申请人 |
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH FOUNDATION;STRESSGEN BIOTECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION |
发明人 |
SANDERS, BRENDA M.;JENKINS, KENNETH D.;NICHOLS, JACK L.;IMBER, BRYAN E. |
分类号 |
C12Q1/68;G01N33/50;G01N33/567;G01N33/68;(IPC1-7):G01N33/561;G01N33/566 |
主分类号 |
C12Q1/68 |
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