Milka Christova Georgieva

• Assoc professor, PhD molecular biologist
• R&D Manager at Medical University of Varna

A newly isolated indigenous strain BN10 identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa was found to produce glycolipid (i.e., rhamnolipid-type) biosurfactants. Two representative rhamnolipidic fractions, RL-1 and RL-2, were separated on silica gel columns and their chemical structure was elucidated by a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spec...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is driven by genetic alterations causing its progression. Besides accepted tumor suppressor- and onco- genes, a series of genes have been identified, which contribute to transformation into a more malignant stage. We investigated whether the expression level of such genes, alone or in combination, could add to predict the pr...

The aim is to estimate the influence of sinusoidal (ac) field in combination with the cytostatic drug gemcitabine on the therapeutic effect of malignant cells. Electrotreatment is cell line dependent. There is threshold frequency window (1Hz) that is the most suitable for drug delivery. Hematopoietic cells are more sensitive to the electrotreatment...

Beta2- microglobulin is part of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I. Its major function is to interact and stabilize the tertiary structure of MHC class I. Down-regulation of MHC class I molecules occurs frequently in tumor cells and this allows them to escape from elimination by cytotoxic T cells. A low level of 2-M expression is a...

Colorectal cancer patients may succumb to their disease because of local recurrence or formation of metastasis. To develop a prognostic tool for these fatal types of progression, 23 patients with colorectal carcinoma were included in this study for the detection at the time of surgery of the incidence of K-ras, B-raf and p53 mutations, the phosphor...

Cytochrome C (Cyt. C) is a mitochondrial protein inducing apoptosis when it is accumulated in the cytosol by a currently unknown mechanism, but regulated by the bcl-2 family of proteins. The linker Histone H1 is another basic protein with highly conservative structure, composition, and equal molecular weight, not changed during the evolution. An at...

The aim of this study was to enhance the antileukemic efficacy of the alkylphosphocholine erucylphospho-N,N,N-trimethylpropylammonium (ErPC3) in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)-derived cell lines by a bcr-directed antisense oligonucleotide (ASO-bcr). The mechanism was substantiated by Western blotting of the BCR-ABL expression level of CML cells, an...

Cytosine arabinoside (ara-C) and 2',2'-difluorodeoxycytidine (Gem) were compared in leukemia cells, with Gem being more potent than ara-C. Gem was combined with hexadecylphosphocholine (HPC) or erucylphospho-N,N,N-trimethylpropanolamine (ErPC(3)) in resistant CML cells. Supra-additive effects were seen in K-562 cells after concomitant and sequentia...

The potential toxic and mutagenic action of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid has been studied in different test systems, and the obtained results range from increased chromosomal damage to no effect at all. We reexamined the effect of this herbicide by simultaneous using three tests based on yeast, transformed hematopoietic, and mouse bone marrow cel...

Three novel Schiff bases: salicylaldehyde methanesulfonylhydrazone (1), 2-hydroxyacetophenone methanesulfonylhydrazone (2) and 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde methanesulfonylhydrazone (3) have been synthesized. Compounds 1-3, as well as acetone methanesulfonylhydrazone (4) have been characterized by TLC, 1H NMR and IR spectra. The spectroscopic results...

Mouse embryocarcinoma stem cells differentiate in culture, given the appropriate induction. We examined whether these cells could provide information about the regulation of nucleotide excision repair in relation to differentiation by measuring the rate-limiting incision step, the removal of cyclobutane dimers and (6-4) photoproducts from the genom...

Mouse embryocarcinoma stem cells differentiate in culture, given the appropriate induction. We examined whether these cells could provide information about the regulation of nucleotide excision repair in relation to differentiation by measuring the rate-limiting incision step, the removal of cyclobutane dimers and (6-4) photoproducts from the genom...