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Ch. Sultan J. M. Lobaccaro S. Lumbroso S. Missov Ch. Belon M. Bost R. Dumas 《Andrologie》1994,4(3):283-287
Klinfelter syndrome was first described in adult males with gynecomastia, azoospermia and hypergonadotropic hypogonadism. Children with the 47, XXY karyotype demonstrate few clinical findings so Klinefelter syndrome is rarely diagnosed until adult life. Besides children who have been diagnosed during prenatal genetic testing, in infancy a male with 47, XXY (or variants: 46, XY-47, XXY; 48, XXXY; 48, XXYY, 49, XXXXY) may be found while undergoing evaluation of micropenis, hypospadias, cryptorchidism or facial anomalies. The older child may present with learning disabilities, behavior disorders or tall stature. At the time of puberty, the clinical picture includes small testes, gynecomastia and an eunuchoid habitus. Early diagnosis of Klinefelter syndrome must be performed since it has been demonstrated that early treatment with androgens may ameliorate many aspects of the clinical symptoms and attenuate or prevent behavioral and psychiatric disorders associated with 47, XXY males. 相似文献
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damo Davi Digenes Siena Isabela Ichihara de Barros Camila Baldin Storti Carlos Alberto Oliveira de Biagi Júnior Larissa Anastacio da Costa Carvalho Silvya Stuchi MariaEngler Josane de Freitas Sousa Wilson Araújo Silva Jr 《Journal of cellular and molecular medicine》2022,26(3):671
Our previous work using a melanoma progression model composed of melanocytic cells (melanocytes, primary and metastatic melanoma samples) demonstrated various deregulated genes, including a few known lncRNAs. Further analysis was conducted to discover novel lncRNAs associated with melanoma, and candidates were prioritized for their potential association with invasiveness or other metastasis‐related processes. In this sense, we found the intergenic lncRNA (ENSG00000230454) and decided to explore its effects in melanoma. For that, we silenced the lncRNA U73166 expression using shRNAs in a melanoma cell line. Next, we experimentally investigated its functions and found that migration and invasion had significantly decreased in knockdown cells, indicating an essential association of lncRNA U73166 for cancer processes. Additionally, using naïve and vemurafenib‐resistant cell lines and data from a patient before and after resistance, we found that vemurafenib‐resistant samples had a higher expression of lncRNA U73166. Also, we retrieved data from the literature that indicates lncRNA U73166 may act as a mediator of RNA processing and cell invasion, probably inducing a more aggressive phenotype. Therefore, our results suggest a relevant role of lncRNA U73166 in metastasis development. We also pointed herein the lncRNA U73166 as a new possible biomarker or target to help overcome clinical vemurafenib resistance. U73166相似文献
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Derek M. Shore Gemma L. Baillie Dow H. Hurst Frank Navas III Herbert H. Seltzman Jahan P. Marcu Mary E. Abood Ruth A. Ross Patricia H. Reggio 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2014,289(9):5828-5845
The cannabinoid 1 (CB1) allosteric modulator, 5-chloro-3-ethyl-1H-indole-2-carboxylic acid [2-(4-piperidin-1-yl-phenyl)-ethyl]-amide) (), has the paradoxical effect of increasing the equilibrium binding of [3H](−)-3-[2-hydroxyl-4-(1,1-dimethylheptyl)phenyl]-4-[3-hydroxylpropyl]cyclohexan-1-ol (CP55,940, an orthosteric agonist) while at the same time decreasing its efficacy (in G protein-mediated signaling). ORG27569 also decreases basal signaling, acting as an inverse agonist for the G protein-mediated signaling pathway. In ligand displacement assays, ORG27569 can displace the CB1 antagonist/inverse agonist, N-(piperidiny-1-yl)-5-(4-chlorophenyl)-1-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)-4-methyl-1H-pyrazole-3-carboxamide(SR141716A). The goal of this work was to identify the binding site of ORG27569 at CB1. To this end, we used computation, synthesis, mutation, and functional studies to identify the ORG27569-binding site in the CB1 TMH3-6-7 region. This site is consistent with the results of K3.28192A, F3.36200A, W5.43279A, W6.48356A, and F3.25189A mutation studies, which revealed the ORG27569-binding site overlaps with our previously determined binding site of SR141716A but extends extracellularly. Additionally, we identified a key electrostatic interaction between the ORG27569 piperidine ring nitrogen and K3.28192 that is important for ORG27569 to act as an inverse agonist. At this allosteric site, ORG27569 promotes an intermediate conformation of the CB1 receptor, explaining ORG27569''s ability to increase equilibrium binding of CP55,940. This site also explains ORG27569''s ability to antagonize the efficacy of CP55,940 in three complementary ways. 1) ORG27569 sterically blocks movements of the second extracellular loop that have been linked to receptor activation. 2) ORG27569 sterically blocks a key electrostatic interaction between the third extracellular loop residue Lys-373 and D2.63176. 3) ORG27569 packs against TMH6, sterically hindering movements of this helix that have been shown to be important for receptor activation. ORG27569相似文献
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In this short report, the genome-wide homologous recombination events were re-evaluated for classical swine fever virus (CSFV) strain . We challenged a previous study which suggested only one recombination event in AF407339 based on 25 CSFV genomes. Through our re-analysis on the 25 genomes in the previous study and the 41 genomes used in the present study, we argued that there should be possibly at least two clear recombination events happening in AF407339 through genome-wide scanning. The reasons for identifying only one recombination event in the previous study might be due to the limited number of available CSFV genome sequences at that time and the limited usage of detection methods. In contrast, as identified by most detection methods using all available CSFV genome sequences, two major recombination events were found at the starting and ending zones of the genome AF407339, respectively. The first one has two parents AF407339 (minor) and AF333000 (major) with beginning and ending breakpoints located at 19 and 607 nt of the genome respectively. The second one has two parents AY554397 (minor) and AF531433 (major) with beginning and ending breakpoints at 8397 and 11,078 nt of the genome respectively. Phylogenetic incongruence analysis using neighbor-joining algorithm with 1000 bootstrapping replicates further supported the existence of these two recombination events. In addition, we also identified additional 18 recombination events on the available CSFV strains. Some of them may be trivial and can be ignored. In conclusion, CSFV might have relatively high frequency of homologous recombination events. Genome-wide scanning of identifying recombination events should utilize multiple detection methods so as to reduce the risk of misidentification. GQ902941相似文献
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We analyzed the temporal and spatial diversity of the microbiota in a low-usage and a high-usage hospital tap. We identified a tap-specific colonization pattern, with potential human pathogens being overrepresented in the low-usage tap. We propose that founder effects and local adaptation caused the tap-specific colonization patterns. Our conclusion is that tap-specific colonization represents a potential challenge for water safety.Humans are exposed to and consume large amounts of tap water in their everyday life, with the tap water microbiota representing a potent reservoir for pathogens (8). Despite the potential impact, our knowledge about the ecological diversification processes of the tap water microbiota is limited (4, 11).The aim of the present work was to determine the temporal and spatial distribution patterns of the planktonic tap water microbiota. We compared the summer and winter microbiota from two hospital taps supplied from the same water source. We analyzed 16S rRNA gene clone libraries by using a novel alignment-independent approach for operational taxonomic unit (OTU) designation (6), while established OTU diversity and richness estimators were used for the ecological interpretations.Tap water samples (1 liter) from a high-usage kitchen and a low-usage toilet cold-water tap in Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway, were collected in January and July 2006. The total DNA was isolated and the 16S rRNA gene PCR amplified and sequenced. Based on the sequences, we estimated the species richness and diversity, we calculated the distances between the communities, and trees were constructed to reflect the relatedness of the microbiota in the samples analyzed. Details about these analytical approaches are given in the materials and methods section in the supplemental material.Our initial analysis of species composition was done using the RDPII hierarchical classifier. We found that the majority of pathogen-related bacteria in our data set belonged to the class Gammaproteobacteria. The genera encompassed Legionella, Pseudomonas, and Vibrio (Table (Table1).1). We found a significant overrepresentation of pathogen-related bacteria in the toilet tap (P = 0.04), while there were no significant differences between summer and winter samples. Legionella showed the highest relative abundance for the pathogen-related bacteria. With respect to the total diversity, we found that Proteobacteria dominated the tap water microbiota (representing 86% of the taxa) (see Table S1 in the supplemental material). There was, however, a large portion (56%) of the taxa that could not be assigned to the genus level using this classifier.
TABLE 1.
Cloned sequences related to human pathogensaOpen in a separate windowaThe relatedness between the cloned sequences and potential pathogens was determined by BLAST searches of the NCBI database, carried out using default settings.To obtain a better resolution of the uncharacterized microbiota, we analyzed the data using a clustering approach that is not dependent on a predefined bacterial group (see the materials and methods section in the supplemental material for details). These analyses showed that there were three relatively tightly clustered groups in our data set (Fig. (Fig.1A).1A). The largest group (n = 590) was only distantly related to characterized betaproteobacteria within the order Rhodocyclales. We also identified another large betaproteocaterial group (n = 320) related to Polynucleobacter. Finally, a tight group (n = 145) related to the alphaproteobacterium Sphingomonas was identified.Open in a separate windowFIG. 1.Tap water microbiota diversity, determined by use of a principal component analysis coordinate system. (A) Each bacterium is classified by coordinates, with the following color code: brown squares, kitchen summer; red diamonds, toilet summer; green triangles, kitchen winter; and green circles, toilet winter. (B and C) Each square represents a 1 × 1 (B) or 5 × 5 (C) OTU. PC1, first principal component; PC2, second principal component.The tap-specific distributions of the bacterial groups were investigated using density distribution analyses. A dominant population related to Polynucleobacter was identified for the toilet summer samples, while for the winter samples there was a dominance of the Rhodocyclales-related bacteria. The kitchen summer samples revealed a dominance of Sphingomonas. The corresponding winter samples did not reveal distinct high-density bacterial populations (see Table S2 in the supplemental material).Hierarchical clustering for the 1 × 1 OTU density distribution confirmed the relatively low overlap for the microbiota in the samples analyzed (Fig. (Fig.2).2). We found that the microbiota clustered according to tap and not season.Open in a separate windowFIG. 2.Hierarchical clustering for the density distribution of the tap water microbiota. The density of 1 × 1 OTUs was used as a pseudospecies for hierarchical clustering. The tree for the Cord distance matrix is presented, while the distances calculated using the three distance matrices Cord, Brad Curtis, and Sneath Sokal, respectively, are shown for each branch.We have described the species diversity and richness of the microbiota in Table S3 in the supplemental material. For the low taxonomic level, these analyses showed that the diversity and species richness were greater for the winter samples than for the summer samples. Comparing the two taps, the diversity and richness were greater in the kitchen tap than in the toilet tap. In particular, the winter sample from the kitchen showed great richness and diversity. The high taxonomic level, however, did not reveal the same clear differences as did the low level, and the distributions were more even. Rarefaction analyses for the low taxonomic level confirmed the richness and diversity estimates (see Fig. S1 in the supplemental material).Our final analyses sought to fit the species rank distributions to common rank abundance curves. Generally, the rank abundance curves were best fitted to log series or truncated log normal distributions (see Table S4 in the supplemental material). The log series distribution could be fit to all of the samples except the kitchen summer samples at the low taxonomic level, while the truncated log normal distribution could not be fit to the kitchen samples at the high taxonomic level. Interestingly, however, the kitchen winter sample was best fit to a geometric curve at both the high and the low taxonomic level.Diversifying, adaptive biofilm barriers have been documented for tap water bacteria (7), and it is known that planktonic bacteria can interact with biofilms in an adaptive manner (3). On the other hand, tap usage leads to water flowthrough and replacement of the global with the local water population by stochastic founder effects (1).Therefore, we propose that parts of the local diversity observed can be explained by local adaptation (10) and parts by founder effects (9).Most prokaryote diversity measures assume log normal or log series OTU dominance density distributions (5). The kitchen winter sample, however, showed deviations from these patterns by being correlated to geometric distributions (in addition to the log series and truncated log normal distributions for the high taxonomic level). This sample also showed a much greater species richness than the other samples. A possible explanation is that the species richness of the tap water microbiota can be linked to usage and that the kitchen tap is driven toward a founder microbiota by high usage.Since our work indicates an overrepresentation of Legionella in the low-usage tap, it would be of high interest to determine whether the processes for local Legionella colonization can be related to tap usage. Understanding the ecological forces affecting Legionella and other pathogens are of great importance for human health. At the Akerhus University Hospital, this was exemplified by a Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak in an intensive care unit, where the outbreak could be traced back to a single tap (2). 相似文献7.
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Lavanya Rishishwar Lee S. Katz Nitya V. Sharma Lori Rowe Michael Frace Jennifer Dolan Thomas Brian H. Harcourt Leonard W. Mayer I. King Jordan 《Journal of bacteriology》2012,194(20):5649-5656
Containment strategies for outbreaks of invasive Neisseria meningitidis disease are informed by serogroup assays that characterize the polysaccharide capsule. We sought to uncover the genomic basis of conflicting serogroup assay results for an isolate () from a patient with acute meningococcal disease. To this end, we characterized the complete genome sequence of the M16917 isolate and performed a variety of comparative sequence analyses against N. meningitidis reference genome sequences of known serogroups. Multilocus sequence typing and whole-genome sequence comparison revealed that M16917 is a member of the ST-11 sequence group, which is most often associated with serogroup C. However, sequence similarity comparisons and phylogenetic analysis showed that the serogroup diagnostic capsule polymerase gene (synD) of M16917 belongs to serogroup B. These results suggest that a capsule-switching event occurred based on homologous recombination at or around the capsule locus of M16917. Detailed analysis of this locus uncovered the locations of recombination breakpoints in the M16917 genome sequence, which led to the introduction of an ∼2-kb serogroup B sequence cassette into the serogroup C genomic background. Since there is no currently available vaccine for serogroup B strains of N. meningitidis, this kind capsule-switching event could have public health relevance as a vaccine escape mutant. M16917相似文献
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In Vivo Fitness Cost of the M184V Mutation in Multidrug-Resistant Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 in the Absence of Lamivudine 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Roger Paredes Manish Sagar Vincent C. Marconi Rebecca Hoh Jeffrey N. Martin Neil T. Parkin Christos J. Petropoulos Steven G. Deeks Daniel R. Kuritzkes 《Journal of virology》2009,83(4):2038-2043
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Flavia Pichiorri Hiroshi Okumura Tatsuya Nakamura Preston N. Garrison Pierluigi Gasparini Sung-Suk Suh Teresa Druck Kelly A. McCorkell Larry D. Barnes Carlo M. Croce Kay Huebner 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2009,284(2):1040-1049
We have previously shown that Fhit tumor suppressor protein interacts with
Hsp60 chaperone machinery and ferredoxin reductase (Fdxr) protein.
Fhit-effector interactions are associated with a Fhit-dependent increase in
Fdxr stability, followed by generation of reactive oxygen species and
apoptosis induction under conditions of oxidative stress. To define Fhit
structural features that affect interactions, downstream signaling, and
biological outcomes, we used cancer cells expressing Fhit mutants with amino
acid substitutions that alter enzymatic activity, enzyme substrate binding, or
phosphorylation at tyrosine 114. Gastric cancer cell clones stably expressing
mutants that do not bind substrate or cannot be phosphorylated showed
decreased binding to Hsp60 and Fdxr and reduced mitochondrial localization.
Expression of Fhit or mutants that bind interactor proteins results in
oxidative damage and accumulation of cells in G2/M or
sub-G1 fractions after peroxide treatment; noninteracting mutants
are defective in these biological effects. Gastric cancer clones expressing
noncomplexing Fhit mutants show reduction of Fhit tumor suppressor activity,
confirming that substrate binding, interaction with heat shock proteins,
mitochondrial localization, and interaction with Fdxr are important for Fhit
tumor suppressor function.Fhit protein is a powerful tumor suppressor that is frequently lost or
reduced in cancer cells because of rearrangement of the exquisitely DNA
damage-sensitive fragile FHIT gene. Restoration of Fhit expression
suppresses tumorigenicity of cancer cells of various types, and the ability to
induce apoptosis in cancer cells in vitro is reduced by specific Fhit
mutations (1,
2).Through studies of signal pathways affected by Fhit expression, by searches
for Fhit protein effectors, and by in vitro analyses of Fhit
activity, we and others have defined Fhit enzymatic activity in vitro
(3), apoptotic activity in
cells and tumors
(4–6),
and most recently identification of a Fhit protein complex that affects Fhit
stability, mitochondrial localization, and interaction with ferredoxin
reductase (Fdxr)5
(7). The complex includes Hsp60
and Hsp10 that mediate Fhit stability and may affect import into mitochondria,
where Fhit interacts with Fdxr, which is responsible for transferring
electrons from NADPH to cytochrome P450 via ferredoxin. Virally mediated Fhit
restoration in Fhit-deficient cancer cells increases production of
intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS), followed by increased apoptosis
of cancer cells under oxidative stress conditions; conversely, Fhit-negative
cells escape apoptosis, likely carrying oxidative DNA damage that contributes
to accumulation of mutations.The Fhit protein sequence, showing high homology to the histidine triad
(HIT) family of proteins, suggested that the protein product would hydrolyze
diadenosine tetraphosphate or diadenosine triphosphate (Ap3A)
(8), and in vitro
studies showed that Ap3A was cleaved into ADP and AMP by Fhit. The
catalytic histidine triad within Fhit was essential for catalytic activity
(3), and a Fhit mutant that
substituted Asn for His at the central histidine (H96N mutant) was
catalytically inactive, although it bound substrate well
(3). Early tumor suppression
studies showed that cancer cells stably transfected with wild type (WT) or
H96N mutant Fhit were suppressed for tumor growth in nude mice. This suggested
the hypothesis that the Fhit-substrate complex sends the tumor suppression
signal (9,
10). To test this hypothesis,
a series of FHIT alleles was designed to reduce substrate-binding
and/or hydrolytic rates and was characterized by quantitative cell-death
assays on cancer cells virally infected with each allele. The allele series
covered defects as great as 100,000-fold in kcat and
increases as large as 30-fold in Km. Mutants with
2–7-fold increases in Km had significantly reduced
apoptotic indices and the mutant with a 30-fold increase in
Km retained little apoptotic function. Thus, the
proapoptotic function of Fhit, which is likely associated with tumor
suppressor function, is limited by substrate binding and is unrelated to
substrate hydrolysis (11).Fhit, a homodimeric protein of 147 amino acids, is a target of tyrosine
phosphorylation by the Src family protein kinases, which can phosphorylate
Tyr-114 of Fhit in vitro and in vivo
(12). After co-expression of
Fhit with the Elk tyrosine kinase in Escherichia coli to generate
phosphorylated forms of Fhit, unphosphorylated, mono-, and diphosphorylated
Fhit were purified, and enzyme kinetics studies showed that monophosphorylated
Fhit exhibited monophasic kinetics with Km and
kcat values ∼2- and ∼7-fold lower, respectively,
than for unphosphorylated Fhit. Diphosphorylated Fhit exhibited biphasic
kinetics; one site had Km and kcat
values ∼2- and ∼140-fold lower, respectively, than for
unphosphorylated Fhit; the second site had a Km
∼60-fold higher and a kcat ∼6-fold lower than for
unphosphorylated Fhit (13).
Thus, it was possible that the alterations in Km and
kcat values for phosphorylated forms of Fhit might favor
formation and lifetime of the Fhit-Ap3A complex and enhance tumor
suppressor activity (see Fhit forms
Kinetic parameters
% Sub-G1
Direct binding
Subcellular location
Co-IP in vivo
8-OHdG
Apoptosis
Tumor suppressor
Km (mm) kcat (s–1) A549 MKN74 Hsp60 Fdxr Hsp60 Fdxr
Fhit WT
1.6 +/– 0.19
2.7 +/– 0.95
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Yes
Yes
Cyt & mito
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Catalyt mutants H96D
Up 2-fold
Down >2 × 104 29
NT
NT
NT
Cyt & mito
Yes
Yes
NT
Yes
NT
H96N
Up 2-fold
Down >5 × 105
31
14.4
NT
NT
Cyt & mito
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Loop mutants Y114A
Up 23-fold
Down 2-fold
3.7
NT
NT
NT
Cyt
+/–
+/–
+/–
No
No
Y114D
NT
NT
2.9
6
NT
NT
Cyt
+/–
+/–
–
No
–/+
Y114E
NT
NT
NT
NT
NT
NT
Cyt & mito
–/+
–/+
–
No
NT
Y114F
Up 5-fold
Up 1.1-fold
11.5
3
NT
NT
Cyt & mito
–/+
–/+
–
No
No
Y114W
Up 5-fold
Up 1.4-fold
NT
NT
NT
NT
Cyt & mito
–/+
–
–
NT
NT
del113–117
Up 10-fold
Down 38-fold
5
NT
NT
NT
NT
NT
NT
–
No
NT
Other mutants L25W
Up 7-fold
Down 4-fold
15
NT
NT
NT
Cyt
–
–
–
NT
–/+
I10W,L25W
Up 32-fold
Down 6-fold
11
NT
NT
NT
NT
NT
NT
NT
NT
NT
F5W
Up 3.3 fold
NT
NT
5
NT
NT
NT
NT
NT
+/–
No
NT
Purified pFhit pFhit
Down 0.4-fold
Down 7-fold
NA
NA
–/+
Yes
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
ppFhit
Down 0.4-fold
Down > 100-fold
NA
NA
–/+
Yes
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
Up 60-fold
Down 6-fold