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Pingping Mao Mary P. Hever-Jardine Gilbert J. Rahme Eric Yang Janice Tam Anita Kodali Bijesh Biswal Camilo E. Fadul Arti Gaur Mark A. Israel Michael J. Spinella 《PloS one》2013,8(11)
STK17A is a relatively uncharacterized member of the death-associated protein family of serine/threonine kinases which have previously been associated with cell death and apoptosis. Our prior work established that STK17A is a novel p53 target gene that is induced by a variety of DNA damaging agents in a p53-dependent manner. In this study we have uncovered an additional, unanticipated role for STK17A as a candidate promoter of cell proliferation and survival in glioblastoma (GBM). Unexpectedly, it was found that STK17A is highly overexpressed in a grade-dependent manner in gliomas compared to normal brain and other cancer cell types with the highest level of expression in GBM. Knockdown of STK17A in GBM cells results in a dramatic alteration in cell shape that is associated with decreased proliferation, clonogenicity, migration, invasion and anchorage independent colony formation. STK17A knockdown also sensitizes GBM cells to genotoxic stress. STK17A overexpression is associated with a significant survival disadvantage among patients with glioma which is independent of age, molecular phenotype, IDH1 mutation, PTEN loss, and alterations in the p53 pathway and partially independent of grade. In summary, we demonstrate that STK17A provides a proliferative and survival advantage to GBM cells and is a potential target to be exploited therapeutically in patients with glioma. 相似文献
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Bj?rn Fischer Aikaterini Dimopoulou Johannes Egerer Thatjana Gardeitchik Alexa Kidd Dominik Jost Hülya Kayserili Yasemin Alanay Iliana Tantcheva-Poor Elisabeth Mangold Cornelia Daumer-Haas Shubha Phadke Reto I. Peirano Julia Heusel Charu Desphande Neerja Gupta Arti Nanda Emma Felix Elisabeth Berry-Kravis Madhulika Kabra Ron A. Wevers Lionel van Maldergem Stefan Mundlos Eva Morava Uwe Kornak 《Human genetics》2012,131(11):1761-1773
Autosomal recessive cutis laxa (ARCL) syndromes are phenotypically overlapping, but genetically heterogeneous disorders. Mutations in the ATP6V0A2 gene were found to underlie both, autosomal recessive cutis laxa type 2 (ARCL2), Debré type, and wrinkly skin syndrome (WSS). The ATP6V0A2 gene encodes the a2 subunit of the V-type H+-ATPase, playing a role in proton translocation, and possibly also in membrane fusion. Here, we describe a highly variable phenotype in 13 patients with ARCL2, including the oldest affected individual described so far, who showed strikingly progressive dysmorphic features and heterotopic calcifications. In these individuals we identified 17 ATP6V0A2 mutations, 14 of which are novel. Furthermore, we demonstrate a localization of ATP6V0A2 at the Golgi-apparatus and a loss of the mutated ATP6V0A2 protein in patients’ dermal fibroblasts. Investigation of brefeldin A-induced Golgi collapse in dermal fibroblasts as well as in HeLa cells deficient for ATP6V0A2 revealed a delay, which was absent in cells deficient for the ARCL-associated proteins GORAB or PYCR1. Furthermore, fibroblasts from patients with ATP6V0A2 mutations displayed elevated TGF-β signalling and increased TGF-β1 levels in the supernatant. Our current findings expand the genetic and phenotypic spectrum and suggest that, besides the known glycosylation defect, alterations in trafficking and signalling processes are potential key events in the pathogenesis of ATP6V0A2-related ARCL. 相似文献
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Catechins are bioprospecting molecules present in tea and any effort towards metabolic engineering of this important moiety would require knowledge on gene regulation. These are synthesized through the activities of phenylpropanoid and flavonoid pathways. Expression regulation of various genes of these pathways namely phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (CsPAL), cinnamate 4-hydroxylase (CsC4H), p-coumarate:CoA ligase (Cs4CL), flavanone 3-hydroxylase (CsF3H), dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (CsDFR) and anthocyanidin reductase (CsANR) was accomplished previously. In depth analyses of the remaining genes namely, chalcone synthase (CsCHS), chalcone isomerase (CsCHI), flavonoid 3'5'-hydroxylase (CsF3'5'H) and anthocyanidin synthase (CsANS) were lacking. The objective of the work was to clone and analyze these genes so as to generate a comprehensive knowledge on the critical genes of catechins biosynthesis pathway. Gene expression analysis was carried out in response to leaf age and external cues (drought stress, abscisic acid, gibberellic acid treatments and wounding). A holistic analysis suggested that CsCHI, CsF3H, CsDFR, CsANS and CsANR were amongst the critical regulatory genes in regulating catechins content. 相似文献
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Pothukuchy A Ellapan S Gopidas KR Salazar M 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2003,13(8):1491-1494
We show that 5'-Gs in 5'-GG-3' duplex DNA dinucleotide steps are preferentially oxidized by the trioxatriangulenium ion (TOTA( plus sign in circle )) upon photo-activation, an oxidation pattern characteristic of guanine radical cation formation. Some photo-oxidation of the 3'G in 5'GG3' steps and of isolated guanines is also observed but reactions carried out in D(2)O reveal only a minor increase in oxidation damage at these sites, indicating that electron transfer is the primary mechanism of guanine oxidation. 相似文献
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Amerind ancestry, socioeconomic status and the genetics of type 2 diabetes in a Colombian population
Campbell DD Parra MV Duque C Gallego N Franco L Tandon A Hünemeier T Bortolini C Villegas A Bedoya G McCarthy MI Price A Reich D Ruiz-Linares A 《PloS one》2012,7(4):e33570
The "thrifty genotype" hypothesis proposes that the high prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Native Americans and admixed Latin Americans has a genetic basis and reflects an evolutionary adaptation to a past low calorie/high exercise lifestyle. However, identification of the gene variants underpinning this hypothesis remains elusive. Here we assessed the role of Native American ancestry, socioeconomic status (SES) and 21 candidate gene loci in susceptibility to T2D in a sample of 876 T2D cases and 399 controls from Antioquia (Colombia). Although mean Native American ancestry is significantly higher in T2D cases than in controls (32% v 29%), this difference is confounded by the correlation of ancestry with SES, which is a stronger predictor of disease status. Nominally significant association (P<0.05) was observed for markers in: TCF7L2, RBMS1, CDKAL1, ZNF239, KCNQ1 and TCF1 and a significant bias (P<0.05) towards OR>1 was observed for markers selected from previous T2D genome-wide association studies, consistent with a role for Old World variants in susceptibility to T2D in Latin Americans. No association was found to the only known Native American-specific gene variant previously associated with T2D in a Mexican sample (rs9282541 in ABCA1). An admixture mapping scan with 1,536 ancestry informative markers (AIMs) did not identify genome regions with significant deviation of ancestry in Antioquia. Exclusion analysis indicates that this scan rules out ~95% of the genome as harboring loci with ancestry risk ratios >1.22 (at P < 0.05). 相似文献
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Arti Baban Dumbrepatil Ji‐Hye Choi Jong Tae Park Myo‐Jeong Kim Tae Jip Kim Eui‐Jeon Woo Kwan Hwa Park 《Proteins》2010,78(2):348-356
The debranching enzyme Nostoc punctiforme debranching enzyme (NPDE) from the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme (PCC73102) hydrolyzes the α‐1,6 glycosidic linkages of malto‐oligosaccharides. Despite its high homology to cyclodextrin/pullulan (CD/PUL)‐hydrolyzing enzymes from glycosyl hydrolase 13 family (GH‐13), NPDE exhibits a unique catalytic preference for longer malto‐oligosaccharides (>G8), performing hydrolysis without the transgylcosylation or CD‐hydrolyzing activities of other GH‐13 enzymes. To investigate the molecular basis for the property of NPDE, we determined the structure of NPDE at 2.37‐Å resolution. NPDE lacks the typical N‐terminal domain of other CD/PUL‐hydrolyzing enzymes and forms an elongated dimer in a head‐to‐head configuration. The unique orientation of residues 25–55 in NPDE yields an extended substrate binding groove from the catalytic center to the dimeric interface. The substrate binding groove with a lengthy cavity beyond the ?1 subsite exhibits a suitable architecture for binding longer malto‐oligosaccharides (>G8). These structural results may provide a molecular basis for the substrate specificity and catalytic function of this cyanobacterial enzyme, distinguishing it from the classical neopullulanases and CD/PUL‐hydrolyzing enzymes. Proteins 2010. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. 相似文献
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Pasaniuc B Zaitlen N Lettre G Chen GK Tandon A Kao WH Ruczinski I Fornage M Siscovick DS Zhu X Larkin E Lange LA Cupples LA Yang Q Akylbekova EL Musani SK Divers J Mychaleckyj J Li M Papanicolaou GJ Millikan RC Ambrosone CB John EM Bernstein L Zheng W Hu JJ Ziegler RG Nyante SJ Bandera EV Ingles SA Press MF Chanock SJ Deming SL Rodriguez-Gil JL Palmer CD Buxbaum S Ekunwe L Hirschhorn JN Henderson BE Myers S Haiman CA Reich D Patterson N Wilson JG Price AL 《PLoS genetics》2011,7(4):e1001371
While genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have primarily examined populations of European ancestry, more recent studies often involve additional populations, including admixed populations such as African Americans and Latinos. In admixed populations, linkage disequilibrium (LD) exists both at a fine scale in ancestral populations and at a coarse scale (admixture-LD) due to chromosomal segments of distinct ancestry. Disease association statistics in admixed populations have previously considered SNP association (LD mapping) or admixture association (mapping by admixture-LD), but not both. Here, we introduce a new statistical framework for combining SNP and admixture association in case-control studies, as well as methods for local ancestry-aware imputation. We illustrate the gain in statistical power achieved by these methods by analyzing data of 6,209 unrelated African Americans from the CARe project genotyped on the Affymetrix 6.0 chip, in conjunction with both simulated and real phenotypes, as well as by analyzing the FGFR2 locus using breast cancer GWAS data from 5,761 African-American women. We show that, at typed SNPs, our method yields an 8% increase in statistical power for finding disease risk loci compared to the power achieved by standard methods in case-control studies. At imputed SNPs, we observe an 11% increase in statistical power for mapping disease loci when our local ancestry-aware imputation framework and the new scoring statistic are jointly employed. Finally, we show that our method increases statistical power in regions harboring the causal SNP in the case when the causal SNP is untyped and cannot be imputed. Our methods and our publicly available software are broadly applicable to GWAS in admixed populations. 相似文献
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Raquel González Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma Sma?la Ouédraogo Mwaka A. Kakolwa Salim Abdulla Manfred Accrombessi John J. Aponte Daisy Akerey-Diop Arti Basra Valérie Briand Meskure Capan Michel Cot Abdunoor M. Kabanywanyi Christian Kleine Peter G. Kremsner Eusebio Macete Jean-Rodolphe Mackanga Achille Massougbodgi Alfredo Mayor Arsenio Nhacolo Golbahar Pahlavan Michael Ramharter María Rupérez Esperan?a Sevene Anifa Vala Rella Zoleko-Manego Clara Menéndez 《PLoS medicine》2014,11(9)