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Die Arbeit setzt sich mit dem Begriff des raumbedeutsamen Vorhabens im Sinne des § 3 Abs. 1 Nr. 6 Raumordnungsgesetz (ROG) auseinander und versucht, diesen Begriff zu konkretisieren. Der Autor kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Legaldefinition in § 3 Abs. 1 Nr. 6 ROG kaum zur Konkretisierung beiträgt und der Subsumtion nicht unmittelbar zugänglich ist. Er spricht sich aus diesem Grund dafür aus, dass eine Konkretisierung dieses Begriffs durch die Bildung von vorhabenbezogenen Fallgruppen zu erfolgen hat.
Sodann werden auf Basis der Methode des typisierenden Fallvergleichs Fallgruppen für die Vorhabentypen „Windenergieanlagen“, „Einzelhandelsbetriebe“ und „Abgrabungen“ erarbeitet. Hierzu wurde die einschlägige Rechtsprechung zu dieser Thematik ausgewertet. Die Fallgruppenbildung trägt dazu bei, den Begriff der Raumbedeutsamkeit zu konkretisieren und die Handhabung dieses wertungsoffenen Begriffs in der Praxis zu erleichtern.
Darüber hinaus diskutiert der Autor unter verschiedenen Gesichtspunkten den in Teilen der Literatur vertretenen Ansatz, unter bestimmten Bedingungen den Trägern der Raumplanung zuzugestehen, die Raumbedeutsamkeit eines Vorhabentypus (z.B. Windenergieanlagen) abstrakt-tatbestandlich in Form eines Ziels der Raumordnung festzusetzen. Diesem Ansatz schließt er sich im Ergebnis an.
The glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) not only presents the most common tumor of the central nervous system in adults, it is also the most aggressive brain tumor. Although patients suffering from GBM standardly receive a combination of multiple treatments including surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, its prognosis is still poor with a median survival time of only 12-15 months. Therefore, new and effective treatment methods are urgently needed.
A signaling molecule which is both involved in proliferation, migration and invasion of a broad range of healthy and malignant cells is the lipid mediator sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P). Previous studies have confirmed that sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptor 1 (S1PR1) is involved in the regulation of proliferation, invasion, metastasis, vascular maturation and angiogenesis of GBM cells, and is closely related to the occurrence and development of tumors. Thus, ACT-209905 (provided by Actelion Pharmaceuticals) as a selective S1PR1 modulator was applied to gain insights into the molecular processes activated by S1PR1 in GBM cells using two human (LN18, U87MG) and one murine (GL261) GBM cell line.
In our in vitro cell viability analyses, we found that ACT-209905 significantly reduced viability of LN18 cells in a concentration dependent manner. A combined administration of ACT-209905 with S1PR2 inhibitors (Compound 16, Compound 16ME – both provided by ONO Pharmaceuticals, and JTE-013 – commercially available) showed a stronger effect than the single administration demonstrating that both S1PR1 and S1PR2 are involved in growth of GBM cells and may interact with each other. Our results also demonstrated that ACT-209905 can induce apoptosis in GBM cells since caspase 3 activity was induced by the S1PR1 modulator which might therefore play an important role in inhibiting the proliferation of GBM cells. Further, we found a significant inhibitory effect of ACT-209905 on the migration and invasion of LN18 and U87MG GBM cells arguing for a participation of S1PR1 signaling in migration and invasion of GBM cells, too. Stimulation of S1P receptors results in the activation of several kinases such as AKT1 and ERK1/2, correspondingly our immunoblot analyses showed a strong activation of both kinases by S1P which was reduced by ACT-209905 in LN18 cells but not in GL261 cells suggesting that different pathways are activated by S1P in these GBM cell lines. Further studies have to be performed to clarify the role of AKT1 and ERK1/2 in the inhibitory effects of ACT-209905 on GBM proliferation, migration and invasion.
Currently, GBM stem cells are discussed as a reason for resistance against the radiochemotherapy and the recurrence of the tumor. Our immunoblot analyses showed that Nestin and CD133, two marker proteins for GBM stem cells, were higher expressed in GBM cells treated with ACT-209905 compared to control or S1P treated LN18 cells. Further investigations in the future might contribute to the elucidation of an involvement of the S1P receptors in the stem cell behavior of GBM cells. Paradoxically to the up-regulation of CD133 and Nestin by ACT-209905, treatment of LN18 stem-like neurospheres with ACT-209905 showed a significant cytotoxic effect of the compound which was even more pronounced in the stem-like neurosphere cells compared to the adherent parental LN18 cells.
Overall, the studies of this work improve our understanding of the complex mechanisms of S1P signaling in GBM cells and might drive the development of its pharmacological modulation as a new therapeutic principle in GBM. Furthermore, an extended knowledge about the molecular effects of ACT-209905 on GBM cells will broaden the understanding for possible future applications and clinical indications.
Cerebral palsy (CP) remains one of the most common debilitating diseases in the world.
Factors such as neuromuscular incoordination, use of soft diet and delayed oral
clearance of food make maintenance of optimum oral hygiene a challenging task in
these children. The compromised oral hygiene in turn make these children highly
vulnerable to dental disease. Maintaining optimal oral/dental health in CP children is of
utmost importance as these children usually suffer from several associated general
health problems in addition to their primary condition. Poor dental health further
compromises their general health. Nevertheless, CP children often suffer from dental
diseases including dental caries more than healthy children. This underscores the need
for improvement in oral health of the CP children. The CP children are dependent on
those around them for their oral hygiene maintenance and dietary intake. CP children
spend most of their time with health care workers in special centers for them or with
their parents/care takers at home. Therefore, the attitude of special health care workers
and parents towards their dental health is of prime importance. The purpose of this
project included to determine the attitude of special health care workers towards their
dental health and oral health comprehension by parents of CP children. In addition, a
study on caries experience of CP children and associated risk factors was also completed.
The final objective was to identify various potential areas of improvement with ultimate
goal of improving dental health of the CP children.
The study involving special health care workers in a Disabled Children’s Center revealed
that oral health knowledge and practices among the workers could generally be labeled
as satisfactory, however some weak areas (such as trend towards symptom-oriented
utilization of oral health care and lack of knowledge about fluoridated water) were
identified. There is a need to enhance the workers’ knowledge in these areas.
The study involving parents of the CP children showed mixed results. Some areas of
strong oral health comprehension (such as importance of good dental health, harmful
effects of sweetened foods), others satisfactory (such as need for routine dental visits,
use of fluoride) and some weak areas (use of flavored fizzy drinks, bottled/canned juices
and sweetened/flavored milks, seeking early treatment) were identified among parents
of CP children. The results strongly indicated a need for enhanced efforts towards
improvement of oral health comprehension in the parents of the CP children.
The study about caries experience and risk factors in CP children has provided useful
information in an area where literature has been scarce. Almost all the studied children
had clinical dental caries, and most of the caries were untreated. Very few children in
the present study had optimal oral hygiene. This study confirmed the strong correlation
between high dental caries experience and poor oral hygiene. Routine dental check-up
visits and topical fluoride application clearly resulted in lower caries experience. Bottled
juices and crispy potato chips were the two predictors for high caries experience.
As stated before, the goal of the project was to identify various potential areas of
improvement in oral health attitude of special health care workers, oral health
comprehension of the parents of CP children and risk factors for dental caries in CP
children. It is contemplated that by addressing the identified weak areas, an
improvement in dental health and care of the CP children is expected. It is also expected
that the collected information will help in improvement of clinical preventive as well as
restorative services for the CP children. CP children and their parents lead a challenging
life. This project was an effort to assist these children and their parents/care takers with
ultimate goal of improving their oral health and in turn their overall quality of life.
Optomechanical (om) systems are characterized by their nonlinear light-matter interaction. This is responsible for unique dynamic properties and allows the detection of a variety of classical and quantum mechanical phenomena on a microscopic as well as on a macroscopic scale. In this work we have studied the dynamic behavior of two laser-driven om systems, the single om cell ("cavity optomechanics / membrane-in-the-middle setup") and a two-dimensional hexagonal array of these cells ("om graphene"). The first case was motivated by the possibility to detect the transition from quantum mechanics to classical mechanics directly on the basis of the dynamic behavior. For this we focus on multistability effects of the optical and mechanical degrees of freedom, that are modeled by harmonic oscillators. Our description is based on the quantum optical master equation, which takes into account the environmental interaction assuming a vanishing temperature. As a consequence of decoherence, the dynamics occur near the semiclassical limit, i.e. it is characterized by quantum fluctuations. The quantum-to-classical transition is realized formally by rescaling the equations of motion. In the classical limit, quantum fluctuations disappear and the mean field equations were evaluated by analytical and numerical methods. We found that classical multistability is characterized by stationary signatures on the route to chaos, as well as by the coexistence of single-periodic orbits for the mechanical degree of freedom. The latter point was extensively evaluated by means of a self-consistent approach. For the dynamics in the quantum regime quantum fluctuations cannot be neglected. For this purpose, the master equation was solved by means of a numerical implementation of the Quantum State Diffusion (QSD) method. Based on Wigner and autocorrelation functions, we were able to show that quantum multistability is a dynamic effect: chaotic dynamics is suppressed and there is a time-dependent distribution of the phase space volume on classical simple-periodic orbits. The results can be interpreted within a semiclassical picture, which makes use of the single QSD quantum trajectory. Accordingly, the quantum-classical transition is explained as a time-scale effect, which is determined by tunneling probabilities in an effective mean-field potential. The subject of the second part of the work is the transport of low-energy Dirac quasiparticles in om graphene, propagating as light and sound waves. For this purpose, we investigated the scattering of a plane light wave by laser-induced photon-phonon coupling planar and circular barriers. The starting point is the om Dirac equation, which results from the continuum approximation of the Hamiltonian description of the two-dimensional array near the semiclassical limit. This work was motivated by the rich and interesting relativistic transport and tunneling phenomena found for electrons in graphene, which now appear in a new way. The reason is the presence of the new spin degree of freedom, which distinguishes the optical and mechanical excitations. In this spin space, the om interaction can be understood as a potential, which in our analysis consists of a time-independent and a time-dependent sinusoidal part. For the first case of a static barrier, the transport is elastic and is characterized by stationary scattering signatures. After solving the scattering problem via continuity conditions we were able to identify different scattering regimes depending on scattering parameters. In addition to relativistic phenomena such as Klein tunneling, simple parameter variation allows to use the barrier as a resonant light-sound interconverter and angle-dependent emitter. For the oscillating barrier, the transport is inelastic and is characterized by dynamic scattering signatures. To solve the time-periodic scattering problem, we have applied the Floquet theory for an effective two-level system. As a result of the barrier oscillation, photons and phonons can get and give away energy portions in the form of integer multiples of the oscillation frequency. The interference of short (classical) and long-wave (quantum) components leads to mixing of the scattering regimes. This allows to use the barrier as a time-periodic light-sound interconverter with interesting radiation characteristics. In addition, we have argued that the oscillating barrier provides the necessary energetic conditions for detecting zitterbewegung.
The Effect of the Patients Nutritional Status on Immune Alterations Induced by Ischemic Stroke
(2018)
Ischemic stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability throughout the world.
One important aspect of stroke pathophysiology are immunological changes after stroke, especially a combination of post stroke immunodepression, leading to
infectious complications after stroke and an activation of the immune system, leading to cerebral injury. Adipose tissue has several immunological functions and obesity
leads to immunological complications and is accompanied by a chronic immune activation.
To study the effects of body weight and obesity on the immune system and measure weight and fat tissue changes after ischemic stroke we conducted the LIPS Trial and enrolled 50 stroke patients and 16 control subjects between July 2015 and July 2016. On the day of admission and on the days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 30, 90 and 180 after admission stroke patients were weighed with an in-bed scale, body composition was measured with BIA, the triceps-skin fold thickness was measured, the NIHSS scale was obtained and blood was drawn. FACS-analysis was performed and triglycerides,cholesterol, CRP and PCT were measured at the central laboratory facility of the Universitätsmedizin Greifswald. Luminex-multiplex analysis for multiple cyto- and chemokines was performed at the Multiplex Facility at the University Leiden. A cerebral MRI and an abdominal MRI were performed shortly after admission and on days 5-7 for most patients and the infarct volume, abdominal fat and hepatic fat percentage were measured. On days 30, 90 and 180 after stroke Bartel Index and mRS were obtained.
After stroke our patients showed the typical immunological changes described previously as stroke induced immune alterations, namely a post stroke immunodepression as well as signs of an activated immune system and an acute
phase response. Our patients lost weight, but only 1.7 ± 0.5 kg. Skinfold thickness did not change during the course of our trial and abdominal fat measurement did not change in stroke patients. Immunological parameters (leukocytes, neutrophils,CRP, PCT, IL-6) did not differ between BMI subgroups (normal weight: BMI < 25,overweight: BMI ≥ 25, < 30, obese: BMI ≥ 30) and in this trial we could not detect a
difference in patients with normal weight, overweight or obesity in the post stroke periode. In an additional analysis we could show that rapid clinical improvement
did result in a rapid improvement of post stroke immune alterations, especially for leukocytes, neutrophils, IL-6 and CRP.
Shunts stellen eine therapeutische Option bei intrakranieller Drucksteigerung dar. Diese Arbeit beruht auf den Ergebnissen einer Studie mit 22 Patienten. Analysiert wurden die Blut- und Liquorproben dieser Patienten im Hinblick auf die Veränderung der Nieren- und Eisenparameter sowie die Verteilung des liquor-spezifischen Beta-Trace-Proteins.
Unstable environments and habitats changing due to climate change force individuals to either respond by genetic adaptation, phenotypic plasticity or by dispersal to suitable environments. Theodoxus fluviatilis (Linneaus, 1758) is a good study organisms when researching phenotypic plasticity and genetic adaptation as it naturally appears in freshwater (FW) as well as brackish water (BW) and thus inhabits a wide range of environmental salinities (0-18‰). It is a euryhaline snail that can be found in shallow waters with stony ground or on Fucus spp. and has formed regional subgroups. The brackish water and the freshwater subgroups are spatially separated and the species cannot be found in areas inbetween, e.g. estuaries.
The species shows great variability in shell patterning and shell size and there is still debate whether the subgroups are distinguishable by these traits or not. The mitochdrial RNA marker cytochrome c subunit I did not show differences between the subgroups indicating that they must be closely related, but salinity tolerance has been observed to be higher in BW snails. This might be caused by the different protein expression patterns and osmolyte accumulation (measured as ninhydrin-positive substances) observed in this species in previous studies. The exact mechanisms regulating protein expression and osmolyte accumulation, however, are not fully understood yet.
Data collected for this thesis shows differences in shell size and suggests a less strict grouping of FW and BW individuals as shell sizes of one FW site are more similar to BW individuals than the other FW ones. A better salinity tolerance towards high salinities and a higher physiological salinity limit of BW snails was confirmed and extended by demonstrating an expanded tolerance range through slow acclimation to challenging salinities in snails from both subgroups. This was achieved by a shift in the slope of their reaction norms that was much more pronounced in BW snails than FW ones. S3 individuals showed a shift similar to that of BW individuals. The data for the salinity tolerance indicates that the underlying mechanism for these tolerances are a combination of phenotypic plasticity and genetic adaptation. Despite an acclimation and shift in the slope of the reaction norms and therefore an increased tolerance towards high salinities (plasticity) FW individuals from two collection sites were not able to cope with salinities as high as BW individuals (local adaptation). The general ability to mobilise free amino acids (FAA) as organic osmolytes was not the reason for this tolerance difference. Individuals from BW and FW sites were capable of accumulating quantities of FAAs equally well. Proline, alanine and urea were the most important components of the accumulated cocktail of organic osmolytes. Even though the total amount of FAAs accumulated under hyperosmotic conditions was the same in both subgroups, there were differences in the metabolic pathways involved in osmolyte accumulation in the foot muscle. The data indicates that the hydrolysis of storage proteins and the synthesis of proline and alanine are the main processes to avoid detrimental body volume shrinkage in T. fluviatilis. While FW individuals seemed to rely on the degradation of proteins and synthesis of alanine, BW individuals depended on newly synthesising proline and alanine and accumulating urea as a side product of transamination. The accumulation of urea is a new finding in aquatic living snails and has not been reported as a mechanism to avoid cell volume shrinkage in these animals.
Differing protein expression patterns were observed under control conditions across all collection sites. 9 spots showed volume changes in BW snails opposite to those of FW snails from collection sites S1 and S2. For 6 of those spots, S3 individuals showed patterns similar to those of BW individuals and for the remaining 3 they showed patterns similar to those of FW animals. The patterns observed when exposing snails to hypo- or hyperosmotic stress were not conclusive in relation to pinpointing individual spots that show the same pattern in all collection sites, but revealed the heterogeneity of protein expression in snails from the different collection sites and in the process of osmoregulation. It also showed the general tendency of protein reduction when snails where under osmotic stress of either kind (hypo- or hyperosmotic), which supports the hypothesis of storage protein degradation.
The investigation of an ANP-receptor showed two variations of the encoding sequence expressed in T. fluviatilis. S3 individuals as well as BW individuals were found to express one type, while FW individuals, with the exception of one sample expressed the other type. This showed that the FW subgroup of T. fluviatilis seems to be more heterogeneous than the BW subgroup, but also raises the question of the dispersal history of this species. The collected data indicates that T. fluviatilis individuals are firstly capable of surviving the acidity of a duck's gizzard and secondly can tolerate acute salinity changes to 16‰ when introduced into a new environment. Hence, if snails from the FW were to be transported to waters with a salinity of up to 16‰ by man, bird, drifting plants or some other means of transport, they would most likely survive and possibly be able to thrive and spread.
The rapid anthropogenic climate change that is projected for the 21st century is predicted to have severe impacts on ecosystems and on the provision of ecosystem services. With respect to the longevity of trees, forestry in particular has to adapt now to future climate change. This requires profound multidisciplinary knowledge on the direct and indirect climate sensitivity of forest ecosystems on various spatial scales. Predictions on growth declines due to increasing drought exposition during climate change are widely recognized for European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), which is the major forest tree in European temperate deciduous forests. However, research from other continents or other biomes has shown that winter climate change may also affect forest growth dynamics due to declining snow cover and increased soil cooling. So far, this winter cold sensitivity is largely unexplored in Europe. Thus, particularly focussing on forest growth dynamics and winter cold sensitivity, the goal of this PhD-project was to explore how climate sensitivity of forest ecosystems differs regionally. By doing so, the project aimed to deliver insights about possibilities and limits of upscaling regional knowledge to a global understanding of climate sensitivity. To achieve these goals, this PhD-project integrated five studies (Manuscripts 1–5) that investigated the climate sensitivity of biogeochemical cycles, plant species composition in forests, and forest growth dynamics across spatial scales. In particular, a large-scale gradient-design field experiment simulated the influence of winter climate change on forest ecosystems by snow cover and soil temperature manipulations (Manuscript 1). This study indicated that soil cooling and decreased root nutrient uptake may indirectly reduce growth of adult forest trees. Moreover, this study indicated uniform ecological sensitivity to soil temperature changes across sites along a large winter temperature gradient (ΔT = 4 K across 500 km), irrespective of the site-specific history of snow cover conditions, which motivates upscaling from local winter climate change studies to the regional scale. Although regional climate drives growth of adult forest trees, local factors, such as site-specific edaphic conditions, might control plants in the forest understory. This assumption was tested by mapping the forest understory composition along the same winter temperature gradient as introduced above (Manuscript 2). Across sites, this study found that edaphic conditions explained the spatial turnover in the forest understory composition more than climate, which might moderate direct climate change impacts on the forest understory composition. However, edaphic conditions, forest structure, and climate are linked by triangular interactions. Thus, climate change might still indirectly affect the forest vegetation dynamics. Moreover, a dendroecological study focussed on the same winter temperature gradient from central to cold-marginal beech populations as above in order to identify gradual changes in summer drought and winter cold sensitivity in tree growth (Manuscript 3). Towards the cold distribution margin, the influence of drought on tree growth gradually decreased, while growth reductions were increasingly related to winter cold due to harsher winter climate. By a large-scale dendroecological network study assessed the relationship of growth dynamics to climate and reproductive effort in beech forests across Europe (Manuscript 4). Indeed, this study found the general pattern across the distribution range of beech that high temperature controlled growth indirectly via resource allocation to reproduction. However, the strong, direct drought signal that could be generally detected from dry-marginal to central populations vanished towards the cold-marginal populations, where the more focussed study of Manuscript 3 identified a stronger relationship of tree growth to winter cold. Further extending the scope of this PhD-thesis to global scales, litter decomposition rates were assessed across biomes (Manuscript 5). This study found a robust relationship between climate and decomposition rates, but it also demonstrated large within-biome variability on a local scale. These local scale differences might depend on habitat conditions that, in turn, could be modulated by climate change, which calls for a better exploration of indirect climate sensitivity. In conclusion, this PhD-thesis highlighted that multidisciplinary research can advance the understanding of ecological interactions in forest ecosystems under changing climate scenarios. In this PhD-project, a winter climate change experiment, where site-representative target trees were selected by means of dendroecology, contributed to a mechanistic understanding of winter cold sensitivity in forest growth dynamics. Dendroecological investigations then put the findings in a broader temporal and spatial context by describing local climate sensitivity of tree growth on different spatial scales. This thesis further shows that global generalizations about the relationship of climate and ecological processes in ecosystem models have to be critically reviewed for the need of local and regional adjustment because these processes might experience considerable regional- or local-scale variation. However, this thesis reports uniform sensitivity of ecological processes to altered winter soil temperature regimes across a large winter temperature gradient. Thus, upscaling from insights of previous winter climate change experiments to regional scales is encouraged.
Die klinischen Ergebnisse von Fusionsoperationen an der Lendenwirbelsäule sind von vielen Faktoren abhängig. Zwei Operationsverfahren stellen derzeit den Goldstandard bei dorsalen lumbalen interkorporellen Fusionsoperationen dar, das PLIF- und das TLIF-Verfahren.
Das Ziel der Entwicklung des neuen dPLIF-Operationsverfahrens und des hierfür entwickelten Cages und Werkzeugs war, die Vorteile der PLIF-Technik und der TLIF-Technik zu vereinen. Kern der Entwicklung war es, über den dorsomedialen PLIF-Zugang einen geraden Cage einzubringen und diesen sicher in eine diagonale Lage, entsprechend der Cagelage bei der TLIF-Technik, zu rotieren. In der Anwendungsbeobachtung sollte die technische Anwendbarkeit im operativen Regelbetrieb bei guten und zur Literatur vergleichbaren klinischen Ergebnissen nachgewiesen werden. Das Cagedesign und die Verfahrenstechnik wurden am Rinderkadaver entwickelt. Nach der CE-Zulassung wurde die prospektive Anwendungsbeobachtung zur lumbalen Fusion von der Ärztekammer genehmigt. Diese umfasste 105 Patienten zwischen 27 und 87 Jahren mit symptomatischer und radiologisch nachweisbarer Wirbelsäuleninstabilität. In 87 von 105 Fällen (82,9%) konnte der dPLIF-Cage in eine diagonale Lage rotiert werden. Wenn intraoperativ eine Cageinsertion oder -rotation aus anatomischen Gründen nicht durchführbar war, war der problemlose Umstieg auf die PLIF-Technik möglich. Es wurde eine Fusionsrate von 95,2% erzielt. In prä- und postoperativen Untersuchungen konnte eine Besserung der neurologischen Symptomatik, der Einschränkungen im Alltag (ODI) und der Schmerzen (VAS) verzeichnet werden. Die Patientenzufriedenheit lag bei 87,6%. Die vorliegende Anwendungsbeobachtung zeigt, dass es möglich ist, mit dem dPLIF-Operationsverfahren einen einzelnen Cage über einen dorsomedialen PLIF-Zugang so zu platzieren, dass seine diagonale Lage der eines TLIF-Cages entspricht. Die Wahl des Operationszugangs ermöglicht die Dekompression des Spinalkanals und die Cageinsertion von nur einer Seite und erspart einen gesonderten Zugang. Dies führt zu einer im Vergleich zur PLIF-Technik kürzeren Operationszeit. Alle klinischen Parameter entsprechen denen der bisherigen Verfahren. Die Daten der Anwendungsbeobachtung ergeben auch, dass die dPLIF-Operationstechnik als sicher zu bewerten ist.
Das Kohärenzgefühl im höheren Lebensalter -Entwicklung und Validierung eines Messinstrumentes-
(2018)
In unserer Gesellschaft vollzieht sich ein demografischer Wandel, der zu einer zunehmend alternden Bevölkerung führt. Dies erfordert, Menschen höheren Lebensalters vermehrt in den Fokus von Forschung und Medizin zu rücken, einem Anspruch, dem die vorliegende Arbeit gerecht werden möchte. Zielsetzung war die Entwicklung eines auf das von Antonovsky begründeten Konzeptes der Salutogenese ausgerichteten Messinstrumentes, zur Erfassung des Kohärenzgefühls im höheren Lebensalter. Die neue Skala sollte einerseits die testspezifischen Gütekriterien Objektivität, Reliabilität und Validität erfüllen, gleichzeitig aber auch forschungsökonomischen Prinzipien gerecht werden und das vor dem Hintergrund einer zielgruppenorientierten Ausrichtung.
Die Fragebogenentwicklung vollzog sich in mehreren Teilschritten. Als Einstieg diente eine explorative Vorstudie in Form von Gruppendiskussionen, die der Itemgenerierung diente. Hieraus entstand ein Pool von 90 Items, der im Anschluss einer Expertenbefragung hinsichtlich seiner Eignung für den Fragebogen unterzogen wurde. Als Resultat entstand eine 30 Items umfassende Sammlung, in der jede SOC-Komponente quantitativ gleich vertreten war. Diese wurde einer Gruppe von sechs Probanden zur Testung auf Verständlichkeit zugeführt. In der Folge wurde ein Item umformuliert, die anderen konnten unverändert in die vorläufige Fragebogenversion, Meine Lebensorientierung, übernommen werden. Diese wurde, eingebettet in eine umfangreiche Fragebogenbatterie, im Rahmen der Greifswalder Studie zur Lebensorientierung im Alter, im Oktober 2011 in drei Kleinstädten in Norddeutschland eingesetzt. Im Anschluss fand die statistische Datenauswertung statt. Mittels Itemanalyse wurden nicht geeignete Items identifiziert und aus der Sammlung eliminiert. Als Resultat entstand eine neue Skala, Das Kohärenzgefühl im höheren Lebensalter, mit 15 Items, jeweils fünf pro SOC-Komponente. In der durchgeführten Studie zeigte diese Skala eine gute interne Konsistenz. Hingegen ließen sich die theoriegeleiteten drei SOC-Komponenten faktorenanalytisch nicht reproduzieren, auch von dem Vorliegen eines Generalfaktors ist, als weitere wichtige Erkenntnis, nicht auszugehen. Die externe Validität wurde in der Untersuchung als mittelstark berechnet.
Abschließend lässt sich festhalten, dass die finale Skala, Das Kohärenzgefühl im höheren Lebensalter, ein reliables und valides Messinstrument darstellt, das zur ökonomischen Erfassung des Kohärenzgefühls, z. B. als Screening-Methode im Rahmen der hausärztlichen oder geriatrischen Betreuung, sinnvoll seinen Einsatz finden kann.
Halsschmerzen gehören zu den häufigen Beratungsanlässen in der Hausarztpraxis und sind zu circa 90% viral bedingt. Um nicht-indizierte Behandlungen mit Antibiotika zu vermeiden gibt es symptomatische Therapieoptionen. AMC / DCBA (Amylmetacresol und 2,4-Dichlorbenzylalkohol) ist eine nicht verschreibungspflichtige Wirkstoffkombination, die in Lutschtabletten (z.B. Strepsils®) enthalten ist. Die Wirkung ist antiseptisch und lokalanästhetisch.
Wir durchsuchten die Datenbanken Medline, Cochraine und EMBASE nach randomisiert kontrollierten Studien, in denen AMC / DCBA gegen Placebo oder andere lokale Behandlungsmethoden getestet wurde. Zwei Gutachter prüften unabhängig Relevanz, Einschlusskriterien und Bias der Studien. Aus den Daten der eingeschlossenen Studien wurden die gewichteten mittleren Differenzen der Schmerzreduktion berechnet.
Diese Metaanalyse fast 3 RCTs mit insgesamt 660 Patienten zusammen und vergleicht AMC / DCBA (0,6 mg Amylmetacresol, 1,2 mg 2,4-Dichlorbenzylalkohol) mit wirkstofffreien Lutschtabletten bei der Behandlung von Halsschmerzen. Berechnet wurden die gewichteten mittleren Differenzen (SMD). Hauptstudienergebnis war die Reduktion der Schmerzintensität von -1,04 Punkten (-1,28 bis -0,79; p<.00001) nach 2 Stunden im Vergleich zum Ausgangswert, gemessen auf einer 11-Punkte Ordinalskala, zum Vorteil für AMC / DCBA. Für die Nebenergebnisse wurden die Schmerzlinderung auf einer 7-Punkte-Skala von 0,89 (1,04 bis 0,73; p<0,00001) und die Linderung der Schluckbeschwerden auf der VAS100 von -0,90 (-1,06 bis -0,75; p<0,00001) nach 2h beobachtet, ebenfalls zugunsten von AMC / DCBA.
In beiden Gruppen berichteten 2 bis 16% der Probanden von Nebenwirkungen, welche meist mild und bezogen auf die eigentliche Atemwegsinfektion waren. 3 Patienten jedoch berichteten von Ulzerationen im Mund, ein Zusammenhang mit der Studienmedikation kann jedoch nicht bewiesen werden [21-23].
Humanity is constantly confronted with the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases. Many of them produce large or devastating epidemics, like AIDS (HIV) and Ebola. Others have been long neglected, yet pose immediate threats to global public health as evidences the abrupt emergence of Zika virus in South America and its association with microcephaly in babies. The examples illustrate, that many of these diseases are provoked by RNA viruses. One of the first steps in understanding and eliminating those threats is the development of sensitive and rapid diagnostic methods. A general and relatively rapid method is the direct detection and examination of the agent’s genome. However, the nature of (re)emerging RNA viruses poses a series of very specific problems for the design of such methods. Therefore, a systematic approach was proposed for the design of DNA-hybridization-base methods to detect and characterize RNA viruses that will have both a high sensitivity and a specificity sufficiently broad to detect, per reaction, down to a single copy of any of the possible variants of the viral genome.
Following this approach a series of assays were designed, developed or adapted and put into use for detection and characterization of important RNA viruses. One of those viruses is West Nile virus (WNV), which after its explosive introduction into USA become the most widespread flavivirus throughout the world and, consequently, many countries began an intensive monitoring. While existing assay detected predominantly the Lineage 1, in Europa Lineage 2 was expected. Two new RT-qPCR for the detection of both lineages were developed, and reportedly used by independent laboratories. Due to more than 50000 associated deaths per year, the Hepatitis E virus also received an increasing attention to elucidate novel routes of transmission. This virus (especially genotype 3) has the zoonotic potential of transmission from pigs and wild boar to humans. RT-qPCR and nested qPCR for detection and characterization of this virus as well as a methodology for subtyping were developed and the first detected case of subtype 3b in a German wild animal was documented. In addition a novel assay for flaviviruses conformed by a RT-qPCR coupled with a low density DNA microarray was developed, which enabled the identification of WNV in mosquitoes from Greece. A RT-qPCR suitable for surveillance and diagnostic of all known variants of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus was developed too. A causative agent of hemorrhagic infections, the Ngari virus, was detected and characterized in animal samples from Mauritania. These achievements were supported by the development of software applications for selection and visualization of primers and probes from aligned DNA sequences and for modeling of DNA hybridizations using unaligned sequences.
In conclusion a general methodology for rapid development of sensitive diagnostic methods based in DNA-hybridization technics (PCR, sequencing and microarray) was stablished and successful applications are reported.
There is an increasingly urgent need to understand and predict how organisms will cope with the environmental consequences of global climate change. Adaptation in any form can be mediated by genetic adaptation and/or by phenotypic plasticity. Disentangling these two adaptive processes is critical in understanding and predicting adaptive responses to environmental change. Usually, disentangling genetic adaptation from phenotypic plasticity requires common garden experiments conducted under controlled laboratory conditions. While these experiments are powerful, it is often difficult to translate the results into natural populations and extrapolate to naturally occurring phenotypic variation. One solution to this problem is provided by the many examples of invasive species that exhibit wide phenotypic variation and that reproduce asexually. Besides selecting the appropriate in situ model, one must carefully choose a relevant trait to investigate. Ecomorphology has been a central theme in evolutionary biology because it reflects how organisms can adapt to their environment through their morphology. Intraspecific ecomorphological studies are especially well suited to identify adaptive pressures and provide insights into the microevolutionary mechanisms leading to the phenotypic differentiation.
One excellent candidate for an intraspecific ecomorphological study aiming to understand adaptation through genetic adaptation and phenotypic plasticity is the invasive New Zealand mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum Gray (1853). This ovoviviparous snail features high variability in shell morphology and has successfully invaded a wide range of fresh- and brackish water habitats around the world. The evolutionary and ecological situations in this species’ native and invasive ranges is drastically different. In New Zealand, P. antipodarum’s native range, sexual and asexual individuals coexist and experience selective pressure by sterilizing endoparasites. By contrast, only a few asexual lineages have been established in invaded regions around the globe, where parasite infection is extremely rare. Here, we took advantage of the low genetic diversity among asexually reproducing European individuals in an attempt to characterize the relative contribution of genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity to the wide variation in shell morphology of this snail.
Analysing the ecomorphology of 425 European P. antipodarum in a geometric-morphometric framework, using brood size as proxy for fecundity, and mtDNA and nuclear SNPs to account for relatedness and identify reproductive mode, we hypothesized that 1) shell variation in the invasive range should be adaptive with respect to colonization of novel habitats, and 2) at least some of the variation might be caused by phenotypic plasticity. We then expanded our ecomorphological scope by analysing 996 native specimens, expecting 1) genetic and morphological diversity to be higher in the native range compared to invaded regions; 2) morphological diversity to be higher in sexual compared to asexual individuals according to the frozen niche hypothesis; and 3) shell morphology to be habitat specific, hence adaptative. In a last part, we used computational fluid dynamics simulations to calculate relative drag and lift forces of three shell morphologies (globular, intermediate, and slender). Here, we tested the overall hypothesis that shell morphology in gastropods is an adaptation against dislodgement through lift rather than drag forces, which would explain the counterintuitive presence of wider shells with shorter spires in lotic environments. With a final flow tank experiment, we tested the specific hypothesis that the dislocation velocity of living snails is positively linked to foot size, and that the latter can be predicted by shell morphology, in particular the aperture area as assumed by several authors.
As expected, we found genetic and morphological diversity to be higher in native than in invasive snails, but surprisingly no higher morphological diversity in sexual versus asexual individuals. The relationships between shell morphology, habitat, and fecundity were complex. Shape variation was primarily linked to genetic relatedness, but specific environmental factors including flow rate induced similar shell shapes. By contrast, shell size was largely explained by environmental factors. Fecundity was correlated with size, but showed trade-offs with shape in increasingly extreme conditions. With increasing flow and in smaller habitats such as springs, the trend of shell shape becoming wider was reversed, i.e. snails with slender shells were brooding more embryos. This increase in fitness was explained by our CFD simulations: in lotic habitats, slender shells experience less drag and lift forces compared to globular shells. We found no correlation between foot size and shell shape or aperture area showing that the assumed aperture/foot area correlation should be used with caution and cannot be generalized for all aquatic gastropod species. Finally, shell morphology and foot size were not related to dislodgement speed in our flow tank experiment. We concluded that the relationship of shell morphology and flow velocity is more complex than assumed. Hence, other traits must play a major role in decreasing dislodgement risk in stream gastropods, e.g. specific behaviours or pedal mucus stickiness. Although we did not find that globular shells are adaptations decreasing dislodgement risk, we cannot rule out that they are still flow related adaptations. For instance, globular shells are more crush-resistant and might therefore represent a flow adaptation in terms of diminishing damage caused by tumbling after dislodgement or against lotic specific crush-type predators.
At this point, we can conclude that shell morphology in P. antipodarum varies at least in part as an adaptation to specific environmental factors. This study shows how essential it is to reveal how plastic, genetically as well as phenotypically, adaptive traits in species can be and to identify the causal factors and how these adaptations affect the fitness in order to better predict how organisms will cope with changing environmental conditions.
Herpesviruses are a fascinating group of enveloped DNA viruses, which rely on membrane fusion for infectious entry and direct cell-to-cell spread. Compared with many other enveloped viruses, they utilize a remarkably complex fusion machinery. Three conserved virion proteins, the bona fide fusion protein gB, and the presumably gB activating gH/gL heterodimer constitute the conserved core fusion machinery and are believed to drive membrane fusion in a cascade-like fashion. Activation of this cascade in most alphaherpesviruses is proposed to be triggered by binding of gD to specific host cell receptors. The molecular details of this fusion process, however, remain largely elusive. Yet, a detailed mechanistic knowledge of this process would be greatly beneficial for the development of efficient countermeasures against a variety of diseases. In this thesis, the functional relevance of individual components of the essential gH/gL complex of the alphaherpesvirus PrV has been assessed by two different approaches: by reversion analysis (paper II) and site-directed mutagenesis (papers III-V). In contrast to other herpesviruses, gL-deleted PrV is able to perform limited cell-to-cell spread, providing the unique opportunity to passage the entry-deficient virus in cell culture to select for PrV revertants capable of infecting cells gL-independently. This approach already resulted in an infectious gL-negative PrV mutant (PrV-ΔgLPass), in which the function of gL was compensated by formation of a gDgH hybrid protein. Here, the requirements for gL-independent infectivity of a second independent revertant (PrV-ΔgLPassB4.1), were analyzed. Sequencing of the genes encoding for gB, gH and gD, revealed mutations in each of them. By means of a robust infection-free, transfection-based cell-cell fusion assay (paper I), we identified two amino acid substitutions in the gL-binding domain I of gHB4.1 (L70P, W103R) as sufficient to compensate for lack of gL. Two mutations in gB (G672R, ΔK883) were found to enhance fusogenicity, probably by lowering the energy, required for gB refolding from pre- to postfusion conformation. Coexpression of gHB4.1 and gBB4.1 led to an excess fusion, which was completely suppressed by gDB4.1 in the fusion assays. This was surprising since PrV gD is normally not required for in vitro fusion or direct viral cell-to-cell spread, clearly separating this process from fusion during entry, for which PrV gD is essential. The fusion inhibiting effect of gDB4.1 could be attributed to a single point mutation resulting in an amino acid substitution within the ectodomain (A106V). In conclusion, these results indicated that gL is not central to the fusion process, as its function can be compensated for. As found so far, gL-independent infectivity can be realized by compensatory mutations in gH (as in PrV-ΔgLPass) or in gH plus gB (as in PrV-ΔgLPassB4.1). Excessive fusion induced by gHB4.1 and gBB4.1 was counter-regulated by gDB4.1, indicating that the interplay between these proteins is precisely regulated and further implies that gL and gD, despite being not absolutely essential for the fusion process, have important regulatory functions on gH and/or gB.
Both PrV-ΔgLPass mutants had acquired compensatory mutations in gH affecting the predicted gL-binding domain I in gH. By construction of an artificial gH32/98, which lacked the predicted gL-binding domain and was similar to the recently crystallized gH-core fragment present in the gDgH hybrid protein, we identified the N-terminal part of PrV gH as essential for gH function during fusion (paper III). gH32/98 was unable to promote fusion of wild-type gB in fusion assays and led to a total loss of function in the viral context. These results indicated that the gD moiety, present in gDgH, is critical for proper function of the gH-core fragment. We hypothesize that the gD moiety may adopt a stabilizing or modulating influence on the gH structure, which is normally executed by gL and important for interaction of gH with wild-type gB. Remarkably, substitution of wild-type gB by gBB4.1 rescued function of gH32/98 in the cellular and viral contexts. These findings suggest that gBB4.1 has been selected for interaction with “gL-less” gH. In conclusion, these results demonstrated that gL and the gL-binding domain are not strictly required for membrane fusion during virus entry and spread but that compensatory mutations must be present in gB to restore a fully functional fusion machinery. These results strongly support the notion of a functional gH-gB interaction as a prerequisite for membrane fusion.
In addition to the N-terminal domain, we identified the transmembrane domain of PrV gH as an essential component of the fusion machinery, while the cytoplasmic domain was demonstrated to play a modulatory but nonessential role (paper IV). Whereas truncation or substitution of the PrV gH TMD by a gpi-anchor or the analogous sequence from PrV gD rendered gH non-functional, the HSV-1 gH TMD was found to functionally substitute for the PrV gH TMD in cell-cell fusion and complementation assays. Since residues in the TMD which are conserved between HSV and PrV gH but absent in PrV gD, are placed on one face of an α-helical wheel plot, we hypothesize that the gH TMD has an intrinsic property to interact with membrane components such as lipids or other molecules as a requirement for promoting membrane fusion.
In a final study focusing on the function of gH, we identified the N-glycosylation sites utilized by PrV gH, and determined their individual role in viral infection (paper V). PrV gH was found to be modified by N-glycans at five potential glycosylation sites. N-glycans at PrV specific N77 and the highly conserved site N627 were found to be critical for efficient membrane fusion in the fusion assays, and during viral entry and cell-to-cell spread. N627 was further shown to be crucial for proper gH transport and maturation. In contrast, inactivation of N604, conserved in the Varicellovirus genus, enhanced in vitro fusion activity and viral cell-to-cell spread. These findings demonstrated a role of the N-glycans in proper localization and function of PrV gH.
Individual white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) growth limitations at treelines in Alaska
(2018)
White spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) is one of the most common conifers in Alaska and various treelines mark the species distribution range. Because treelines positions are driven by climate and because climate change is estimated to be strongest in northern latitudes, treeline shifts appear likely. However, species range shifts depend on various species parameters, probably most importantly on phenotypic plasticity, genetic adaptation
and dispersal. Due to their long generation cycles and their immobility, trees evolved to endure a wide variety of climatic conditions. In most locations, interannual climate variability is larger than the expected climate change until 2100. Thus treeline position is typically thought of as the integrated effect of multiple years and to lag behind gradual climate change by several decades. Past dendrochronological studies revealed that growth of white spruce in Alaska can be limited by several climatic variables, in particular water stress and low temperatures. Depending on how the intensity of climate warming, this could result in a leading range edge at treelines limited by low temperatures and trailing treelines where soil moisture is or becomes most limiting. Climate-growth correlations are the dendrochronological version of reaction norms and describe the relationship between an environmental variable and traits like tree-ring parameters (e.g. ring width, wood density, wood anatomy). These correlations can be used to explore potential effects of climate change on a target species. However, it is known that individuals differ with respect to multiple variables like size, age, microsite conditions, competition status or their genome. Such individual differences could be important because they can modulate climate-growth relationships and consequently also range shifts and growth trends. Removing individual differences by averaging tree-ring parameters of many individuals into site chronologies could be an oversimplification that might bias estimates of future white spruce performance. Population dynamics that emerge from the interactions of individuals (e.g. competition) and the range of reactions to the same environmental drivers can only be studied via individual tree analyses. Consequently, this thesis focuses on factors that might alter individual white spruce’ climate sensitivity and methods to assess such effects. In particular, the research articles included explore three topics:
1. First, clones were identified via microsatellites and high-frequency climate signals of clones were compared to that of non-clonal individuals. Clonal and non-clonal individuals showed similar high-frequency climate signals which allows to use clonal and non-clonal individuals to construct mean site chronologies. However, clones were more frequently found under the harsher environmental conditions at the treelines which could be of interest for the species survival strategy at alpine treelines and is further explored in the associated RESPONSE project A5 by David Würth.
2. In the second article, methods for the exploration and visualization of individual-tree differences in climate sensitivity are described. These methods represent a toolbox to explore causes for the variety of different climate sensitivities found in individual
trees at the same site. Though, overlaying gradients of multiple factors like temperature, tree density and/or tree height can make it difficult to attribute a single cause to the range of reaction norms (climate growth correlations).
3. Lastly, the third article attempts to disentangle the effect of age and size on climate-growth correlations. Multiple past studies found that trees of different Ages responded differently to climatic drivers. In contrast, other studies found that trees do not age like many other organisms. Age and size of a trees are roughly correlated, though there are large differences in the growth rate of trees, which can lead to smaller trees that are older than taller trees. Consequently, age is an imperfect Proxy for size and in contrast to age, size has been shown to affect wood anatomy and thus tree physiology. The article compares two tree-age methods and one tree-size method based on cumulative ring width. In line with previous research on aging and Wood anatomy, tree size appeared to be the best predictor to explain ontogenetic changes in white spruce’ climate sensitivity. In particular, tallest trees exhibited strongest correlations with water stress in previous year July. In conclusion, this thesis is about factors that can alter climate-growth relationships (reaction norms) of white spruce. The results emphasize that interactions between climate variables and other factors like tree size or competition status are important for estimates of future tree growth and potential treeline shifts. In line with previous studies on white spruce in Alaska, the results of this thesis underline the importance of water stress for white spruce.
Individuals that are taller and that have more competitors for water appear to be most susceptible to the potentially drier future climate in Alaska. While tree ring based growth trends estimates of white spruce are difficult to derive due to multiple overlaying low frequency (>10 years) signals, all investigated treeline sites showed highest growth at the treeline edge. This could indicate expanding range edges. However, a potential bottleneck for treeline advances and retreats could be seedling establishment, which should be explored in more detail in the future.
Class I and class II glutaredoxins (Grxs) are glutathione (GSH)-dependent proteins, that function as oxidoreductases (class I) or mediate cellular iron trafficking (class II). Some members of class I Grxs like human Grx2 are able to complex a [2Fe-2S] cluster and form a dimeric holo complex, which renders them catalytically inactive and is the basis for their function as redox sensors. Class II Grxs like human Grx5 also complex [2Fe-2S] clusters, however these proteins transfer the clusters to other proteins. Both functionally distinct classes share a similar thioredoxin fold and conserved interaction sites for the non-covalently binding of GSH, which is required to complex the [2Fe-2S] cluster. Furthermore, the proteins from both classes contain a highly nucleophilic active site cysteine that would allow both classes to catalyze GSH-dependent oxidoreduction reactions. Despite of these similar features, only class I Grxs are able to form a mixed disulfide with GSH and to reversibly transfer it to protein thiols (de-/glutathionylation). Interestingly, neither class I Grxs nor class II Grxs can effectively compensate the loss of an essential member of the other class. Even though some structural differences were described earlier, the basis for their different functions remained unknown. In particular, the lack of catalytic activity of class II Grxs as oxidoreductases could not be explained. Here, we demonstrate that the different conformations of a conserved lysyl side chain are the molecular determinant of the oxidoreductase or Fe-S transfer activity of class I and II Grxs, respectively. A specific loop structure that is conserved in all class II Grxs determines one lysyl conformation that prevents the formation of a mixed disulfide of the active site cysteinyl thiol with GSH. Using engineered mutants of hGrx2 and hGrx5, we demonstrated that the exchange of the distinct loop between the classes results in a loss of oxidoreductase function of class I hGrx2 and the gain of oxidoreductase activity of class II hGrx5. The altered GSH binding mode also profoundly changes the [2Fe-2S] cluster binding of the engineered mutants and thereby also influences stability of the holo complexes, a pre-determinant for [Fe-S] cluster transfer activity. With the minor shift of 2 Å in a conserved lysyl side chain orientation we were not only able to modify the catalytic activity of two small human mitochondrial proteins, but on a much larger scale also provided evidence for the previously unknown structural basis that determines the function of all class I and class II Grxs.
The oxidoreductase activity of hGrx2 was also analyzed in vivo in a model of doxorubicin cell toxicity. Applying a mass spectrometrical approach, we identified various mitochondrial proteins as targets for redox regulation. Furthermore, our results gave reason to reconsider some common assumptions regarding doxorubicin-induced apoptosis and the protective function of mitochondrial Grx2.
The synthesis of pterin-dithiolene ligands was achieved by employing the radical nucleophilic substitution, i.e. the so-called “Minisci- Reaction”1. This protocol was used for the first time by Professor W. Pfleiderer on pterin substrates2 and proved a powerful method for the preparation of 6 acyl-pterins in course of this work. Subsequent construction of the dithiolene ring facilitates the synthesis of pterin-dithiolene ligands with completely unprotected pterin moieti.
The molybdenum cofactor is probably one of the most relevant discoveries in the recent history of pterin chemistry and biochemistry. Many efforts have been made for the preparation of compounds able to mimic the features of the Moco ligand system called "Molybdopterin". In fact, the study of MPT models enables a deeper understanding of the “mechanism of function” of this cofactor and most importantly, lays the foundation for a potential treatment for the Moco related diseases MoCOD and iSOD.
In an aerobic environment the occurrence of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is a common phenomenon. The diverse roles of ROS in cellular function and in diseases make them a target of interest in many research areas. Substances capable of directly or indirectly reducing the (harmful) effects of ROS are referred to as “antioxidants”. However, the term is applied miscellaneously in the chemical and the biological context to describe different attributes of a substance. In this work the potential of an electrochemical assay to detect different ROS in-vitro was explored. The method was optimized to investigate the radical scavenging activities (antioxidant potential) of trolox and different plant compounds (ascorbic acid, caffeic acid, epigallocatechin gallate, ferulic acid, kaempferol, quercetin, rutin, and Gynostemma pentaphyllum extract) in-vitro. The obtained data was compared to established antioxidant in-vitro assays. Further, the impact of the plant substances on cellular parameters was evaluated with the electrochemical assay and established cell assays.
The optimization of the electrochemical assay allowed the reproducible detection of ROS. The sensor electrode proved differently sensitive towards individual ROS species. The highest sensitivity was recorded for hydroxyl radicals while superoxide and hydrogen peroxide had little impact on the sensor. Extracellular ROS concentrations could be detected from cell lines releasing elevated ROS into the extracellular space. The antioxidant activity of the investigated plant substances could be demonstrated with all in-vitro assays applied. However, the absolute as well as the relative activity of the individual substances varied depending on the experimental parameters of the assays (pH, radical species, phase, detection method).
The plant compounds modified redox related intracellular parameters in different cell lines. However, a direct correlation between intracellular and extracellular effects of the plant compounds could not be established.
The work demonstrates the feasibility to use the electrochemical assay to sense ROS as well as to evaluate the radical scavenging activity of molecules. The in-vitro antioxidant activities demonstrated for the individual plant substances are not reliable to predict the cellular effects of the molecules.
Unter Verwendung von rekombinanten Schweineleberesterasen wurden zwei Chemoenzymatische Prozesse sukkzessive etabliert, optmiert und im Maßstab vergößert. Es wurden zwei chirale Synthesebausteine beispielhaft hergestellt und charakterisiert.
Die Arbeit gibt einen Einblick in die Prozessoptimierung von chemoenzymatischen Syntheserouten unter ökonomischen Aspekten.