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Elena Larrieta-Carrasco Paola León-Mimila Teresa Villarreal-Molina Hugo Villamil-Ramírez Sandra Romero-Hidalgo Leonor Jacobo-Albavera Roxana Gutiérrez-Vidal Blanca E. López-Contreras Luz E. Guillén-Pineda Fausto Sánchez-Muñoz Rafael Bojalil Ana M. Mejía-Domínguez Nahúm Méndez-Sánchez Aaron Domínguez-López Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas Samuel Canizales-Quinteros 《Gene》2013
Background and aims
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and elevated alanine transaminase (ALT) levels are common in obese Hispanic adults and children. Recently, a PNPLA3 gene variant (I148M) was strongly associated with NAFLD and higher ALT levels in obese adults, including Hispanics. The aims of this study were to estimate the frequency of elevated ALT levels, and to address the influence of obesity and PNPLA3/I148M on ALT levels in a general population sample of Mexican school-aged children.Methods
A total of 1037 non-related Mexican children aged 6 to 12 years were genotyped for the I148M variant. Anthropometric, clinical and metabolic parameters were collected from all participants.Results
Elevated ALT levels (> 35 U/L) were more frequent in obese (26.9%) and overweight (9.3%) than in normal weight children (2.2%). The M148M genotype was significantly associated with elevated ALT levels in this population (OR = 3.7, 95% CI 2.3–5.9; P = 3.7 × 10− 8), and children carrying the M148M genotype showed significantly lower HDL cholesterol levels and BMI z-core (P = 0.036 and 0.015, respectively). On stratifying by BMI percentile, this genotype conferred a much greater risk of elevated ALT levels in normal weight (OR = 19.9, 95% CI 2.5–157.7; P = 0.005) than overweight and obese children (OR = 3.4, 95% CI 1.3–8.9; P = 0.014 and OR = 3.1, 95% CI 1.7–5.5; P = 1.4 x10− 4, respectively).Conclusions
The I148M PNPLA3 variant is strongly associated with elevated ALT levels in normal weight and overweight/obese Mexican children. Thus, the M148M genotype may be considered as an important risk factor for liver damage in this population. 相似文献2.
Jennifer MP Woo Zhuofeng Lin Mohamad Navab Casey Van Dyck Yvette Trejo-Lopez Krystal MT Woo Hongyun Li Lawrence W Castellani Xuping Wang Noriko Iikuni Ornella J Rullo Hui Wu Antonio La Cava Alan M Fogelman Aldons J Lusis Betty P Tsao 《Arthritis research & therapy》2010,12(3):R93
Introduction
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of L-4F, an apolipoprotein A-1 mimetic peptide, alone or with pravastatin, in apoE-/-Fas-/-C57BL/6 mice that spontaneously develop immunoglobulin G (IgG) autoantibodies, glomerulonephritis, osteopenia, and atherosclerotic lesions on a normal chow diet.Methods
Female mice, starting at eight to nine weeks of age, were treated for 27 weeks with 1) pravastatin, 2) L-4F, 3) L-4F plus pravastatin, or 4) vehicle control, followed by disease phenotype assessment.Results
In preliminary studies, dysfunctional, proinflammatory high-density lipoproteins (piHDL) were decreased six hours after a single L-4F, but not scrambled L-4F, injection in eight- to nine-week old mice. After 35 weeks, L-4F-treated mice, in the absence/presence of pravastatin, had significantly smaller lymph nodes and glomerular tufts (PL, LP < 0.05), lower serum levels of IgG antibodies to double stranded DNA (dsDNA) (PL < 0.05) and oxidized phospholipids (oxPLs) (PL, LP < 0.005), and elevated total and vertebral bone mineral density (PL, LP < 0.01) compared to vehicle controls. Although all treatment groups presented larger aortic root lesions compared to vehicle controls, enlarged atheromas in combination treatment mice had significantly less infiltrated CD68+ macrophages (PLP < 0.01), significantly increased mean α-actin stained area (PLP < 0.05), and significantly lower levels of circulating markers for atherosclerosis progression, CCL19 (PL, LP < 0.0005) and VCAM-1 (PL < 0.0002).Conclusions
L-4F treatment, alone or with pravastatin, significantly reduced IgG anti-dsDNA and IgG anti-oxPLs, proteinuria, glomerulonephritis, and osteopenia in a murine lupus model of accelerated atherosclerosis. Despite enlarged aortic lesions, increased smooth muscle content, decreased macrophage infiltration, and decreased pro-atherogenic chemokines in L-4F plus pravastatin treated mice suggest protective mechanisms not only on lupus-like disease, but also on potential plaque remodeling in a murine model of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and accelerated atherosclerosis. 相似文献3.
Molecular architecture of the ribosome‐bound Hepatitis C Virus internal ribosomal entry site RNA 下载免费PDF全文
Justus Loerke Jochen Ismer Andrea Schmidt Tarek Hilal Thiemo Sprink Kaori Yamamoto Thorsten Mielke Jörg Bürger Tanvir R Shaikh Marylena Dabrowski Peter W Hildebrand Patrick Scheerer Christian MT Spahn 《The EMBO journal》2015,34(24):3042-3058
Internal ribosomal entry sites (IRESs) are structured cis‐acting RNAs that drive an alternative, cap‐independent translation initiation pathway. They are used by many viruses to hijack the translational machinery of the host cell. IRESs facilitate translation initiation by recruiting and actively manipulating the eukaryotic ribosome using only a subset of canonical initiation factor and IRES transacting factors. Here we present cryo‐EM reconstructions of the ribosome 80S‐ and 40S‐bound Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) IRES. The presence of four subpopulations for the 80S•HCV IRES complex reveals dynamic conformational modes of the complex. At a global resolution of 3.9 Å for the most stable complex, a derived atomic model reveals a complex fold of the IRES RNA and molecular details of its interaction with the ribosome. The comparison of obtained structures explains how a modular architecture facilitates mRNA loading and tRNA binding to the P‐site. This information provides the structural foundation for understanding the mechanism of HCV IRES RNA‐driven translation initiation. 相似文献
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Villalobos-Comparán M Teresa Flores-Dorantes M Teresa Villarreal-Molina M Rodríguez-Cruz M García-Ulloa AC Robles L Huertas-Vázquez A Saucedo-Villarreal N López-Alarcón M Sánchez-Muñoz F Domínguez-López A Gutiérrez-Aguilar R Menjivar M Coral-Vázquez R Hernández-Stengele G Vital-Reyes VS Acuña-Alonzo V Romero-Hidalgo S Ruiz-Gómez DG Riaño-Barros D Herrera MF Gómez-Pérez FJ Froguel P García-García E Teresa Tusié-Luna M Aguilar-Salinas CA Canizales-Quinteros S 《Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.)》2008,16(10):2296-2301
Common polymorphisms in the fat mass and obesity-associated gene (FTO) have shown strong association with obesity in several populations. In the present study, we explored the association of FTO gene polymorphisms with obesity and other biochemical parameters in the Mexican population. We also assessed FTO gene expression levels in adipose tissue of obese and nonobese individuals. The study comprised 788 unrelated Mexican-Mestizo individuals and 31 subcutaneous fat tissue biopsies from lean and obese women. FTO single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) rs9939609, rs1421085, and rs17817449 were associated with obesity, particularly with class III obesity, under both additive and dominant models (P = 0.0000004 and 0.000008, respectively). These associations remained significant after adjusting for admixture (P = 0.000003 and 0.00009, respectively). Moreover, risk alleles showed a nominal association with lower insulin levels and homeostasis model assessment of B-cell function (HOMA-B), and with higher homeostasis model assessment of insulin sensitivity (HOMA-S) only in nonobese individuals (P (dom) = 0.031, 0.023, and 0.049, respectively). FTO mRNA levels were significantly higher in subcutaneous fat tissue of class III obese individuals than in lean individuals (P = 0.043). Risk alleles were significantly associated with higher FTO expression in the class III obesity group (P = 0.047). In conclusion, FTO is a major risk factor for obesity (particularly class III) in the Mexican-Mestizo population, and is upregulated in subcutaneous fat tissue of obese individuals. 相似文献
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Renato M Salgado Luciane P Capelo Rodolfo R Favaro Jocelyn D Glazier John D Aplin Telma MT Zorn 《Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E》2009,7(1):60
Background
Remodeling of the extracellular matrix is one of the most striking features observed in the uterus during the estrous cycle and after hormone replacement. Versican (VER) is a hyaluronan-binding proteoglycan that undergoes RNA alternative splicing, generating four distinct isoforms. This study analyzed the synthesis and distribution of VER in mouse uterine tissues during the estrous cycle, in ovariectomized (OVX) animals and after 17beta-estradiol (E2) and medroxyprogesterone (MPA) treatments, either alone or in combination. 相似文献8.
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Josué I. Beltrán-López Andrea Romero-Maldonado Elizabeth Monreal-Escalante Bernardo Bañuelos-Hernández Luz MT Paz-Maldonado Sergio Rosales-Mendoza 《Plant cell reports》2016,35(5):1133-1141