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Nathalie Aulner Anne Danckaert Eline Rouault-Hardoin Julie Desrivot Olivier Helynck Pierre-Henri Commere Hélène Munier-Lehmann Gerald F. Sp?th Spencer L. Shorte Geneviève Milon Eric Prina 《PLoS neglected tropical diseases》2013,7(4)
Background/Objectives
Human leishmaniases are parasitic diseases causing severe morbidity and mortality. No vaccine is available and numerous factors limit the use of current therapies. There is thus an urgent need for innovative initiatives to identify new chemotypes displaying selective activity against intracellular Leishmania amastigotes that develop and proliferate inside macrophages, thereby causing the pathology of leishmaniasis.Methodology/Principal Findings
We have developed a biologically sound High Content Analysis assay, based on the use of homogeneous populations of primary mouse macrophages hosting Leishmania amazonensis amastigotes. In contrast to classical promastigote-based screens, our assay more closely mimics the environment where intracellular amastigotes are growing within acidic parasitophorous vacuoles of their host cells. This multi-parametric assay provides quantitative data that accurately monitors the parasitic load of amastigotes-hosting macrophage cultures for the discovery of leishmanicidal compounds, but also their potential toxic effect on host macrophages. We validated our approach by using a small set of compounds of leishmanicidal drugs and recently published chemical entities. Based on their intramacrophagic leishmanicidal activity and their toxicity against host cells, compounds were classified as irrelevant or relevant for entering the next step in the drug discovery pipeline.Conclusions/Significance
Our assay represents a new screening platform that overcomes several limitations in anti-leishmanial drug discovery. First, the ability to detect toxicity on primary macrophages allows for discovery of compounds able to cross the membranes of macrophage, vacuole and amastigote, thereby accelerating the hit to lead development process for compounds selectively targeting intracellular parasites. Second, our assay allows discovery of anti-leishmanials that interfere with biological functions of the macrophage required for parasite development and growth, such as organelle trafficking/acidification or production of microbicidal effectors. These data thus validate a novel phenotypic screening assay using virulent Leishmania amastigotes growing inside primary macrophage to identify new chemical entities with bona fide drug potential. 相似文献2.
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An RNA-Seq strategy was used to obtain the complete set of protein-coding mitochondrial genes from two rodent taxa. Thanks to the next generation sequencing (NGS) 454 approach, we determined the complete mitochondrial DNA genome from Graphiurus kelleni (Mammalia: Rodentia: Gliridae) and partial mitogenome from Pedetes capensis (Pedetidae), and compared them with published rodent and outgroup mitogenomes. We finished the mitogenome sequencing by a series of amplicons using conserved PCR primers to fill the gaps corresponding to tRNA, rRNA and control regions. Phylogenetic analyses of the mitogenomes suggest a well-supported rodent phylogeny in agreement with nuclear gene trees. Pedetes groups with Anomalurus into the clade Anomaluromorpha, while Graphiurus branches within the squirrel-related clade. Moreover, Pedetes + Anomalurus branch with Castor into the mouse-related clade. Our study demonstrates the utility of NGS for obtaining new mitochondrial genomes as well as the importance of choosing adequate models of sequence evolution to infer the phylogeny of rodents. 相似文献
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Johan Decelle Hryhoriy Stryhanyuk Benoit Gallet Giulia Veronesi Matthias Schmidt Sergio Balzano Sophie Marro Clarisse Uwizeye Pierre-Henri Jouneau Josselin Lupette Juliette Jouhet Eric Maréchal Yannick Schwab Nicole L. Schieber Rémi Tucoulou Hans Richnow Giovanni Finazzi Niculina Musat 《Current biology : CB》2019,29(6):968-978.e4
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RNA interference inhibition of Mus81 reduces mitotic recombination in human cells 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3 下载免费PDF全文
Blais V Gao H Elwell CA Boddy MN Gaillard PH Russell P McGowan CH 《Molecular biology of the cell》2004,15(2):552-562
Mus81 is a highly conserved endonuclease with homology to the XPF subunit of the XPF-ERCC1 complex. In yeast Mus81 associates with a second subunit, Eme1 or Mms4, which is essential for endonuclease activity in vitro and for in vivo function. Human Mus81 binds to a homolog of fission yeast Eme1 in vitro and in vivo. We show that recombinant Mus81-Eme1 cleaves replication forks, 3' flap substrates, and Holliday junctions in vitro. By use of differentially tagged versions of Mus81 and Eme1, we find that Mus81 associates with Mus81 and that Eme1 associates with Eme1. Thus, complexes containing two or more Mus81-Eme1 units could function to coordinate substrate cleavage in vivo. Down-regulation of Mus81 by RNA interference reduces mitotic recombination in human somatic cells. The recombination defect is rescued by expression of a bacterial Holliday junction resolvase. These data provide direct evidence for a role of Mus81-Eme1 in mitotic recombination in higher eukaryotes and support the hypothesis that Mus81-Eme1 resolves Holliday junctions in vivo. 相似文献
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Xuemei?Li Ziyi?Li Alice?Jouneau Qi?ZhouEmail author Jean-Paul?Renard 《Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E》2003,1(1):84
Cloning mammals by nuclear transfer is a powerful technique that is quickly advancing the development of genetically defined
animal models. However, the overall efficiency of nuclear transfer is still very low and several hurdles remain before the
power of this technique will be fully harnessed. Among these hurdles include an incomplete understanding of biologic processes
that control epigenetic reprogramming of the donor genome following nuclear transfer. Incomplete epigenetic reprogramming
is considered the major cause of the developmental failure of cloned embryos and is frequently associated with the disregulation
of specific genes. At present, little is known about the developmental mechanism of reconstructed embryos. Therefore, screening
strategies to design nuclear transfer protocols that will mimic the epigenetic remodeling occurring in normal embryos and
identifying molecular parameters that can assess the developmental potential of pre-implantation embryos are becoming increasingly
important. A crucial need at present is to understand the molecular events required for efficient reprogramming of donor genomes
after nuclear transfer. This knowledge will help to identify the molecular basis of developmental defects seen in cloned embryos
and provide methods for circumventing such problems associated with cloning the future application of this technology. 相似文献
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Bamboo is considered useful for controlling landslides, but we observed numerous shallow-slope failures in forests of big node bamboo (Phyllostachys nidularia) in Sichuan, China. Therefore, we inventoried landslide occurrence and vegetation type along one valley. To quantify bamboo root anchorage, we performed uprooting tests and measured plant morphological characteristics. Landslide occurrence was greatest at sites with bamboo and young trees. Culm failure was common because of the high length to diameter ratio (242 ± 6). Uprooting tests showed that the maximal force to cause failure was small (1615 ± 195 N). Uprooting force was strongly and positively regressed with a combination of the predictors lateral root number and volume (R(2) = 0.92), and root systems were highly superficial (depth = 0.15 ± 0.12 m), contributing little to slope stability. In P. nidularia, which grows on landslide-prone slopes, surprisingly few resources have been allocated to anchorage. We suggest that this strategy puts this pioneer at an advantage on steep slopes, where it contributes little to slope stability and colonizes frequently formed gaps through vegetative regeneration. Fewer disturbances would result in subsequent secondary succession and dying back of this shade intolerant species. 相似文献
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Jouneau A Zhou Q Camus A Brochard V Maulny L Collignon J Renard JP 《Development (Cambridge, England)》2006,133(8):1597-1607
In mammals, cloning by nuclear transfer (NT) into an enucleated oocyte is a very inefficient process, even if it can generate healthy adults. We show that blastocysts derived from embryonic stem (ES) donor cells develop at a high rate, correctly express the pluripotential marker gene Oct4 in ICM cells and display normal growth in vitro. Moreover, the majority of them implant in the uterus of recipient females. We combine embryological studies, gene expression analysis during gastrulation and generation of chimaeric embryos to identify the developmental origin (stage and tissue affected) of NT embryo mortality. The majority died before mid-gestation from defects arising early, either at peri-implantation stages or during the gastrulation period. The first type of defect is a non-cell autonomous defect of the epiblast cells and is rescued by complementation of NT blastocysts with normal ES or ICM cells. The second type of defect affects growth regulation and the shape of the embryo but does not directly impair the initial establishment of the patterning of the embryo. Only chimaeras formed by the aggregation of NT and tetraploid embryos reveal no growth abnormalities at gastrulation. These studies indicate that the trophoblast cell lineage is the primary source of these defects. These embryological studies provide a solid basis for understanding reprogramming errors in NT embryos. In addition, they unveil new aspects of growth regulation while increasing our knowledge on the role of crosstalk between the extra-embryonic and the embryonic regions of the conceptus in the control of growth and morphogenesis. 相似文献